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Schumacher fends off feisty Finn
Michael Schumacher held off a late challenge from McLaren's resurgent Kimi Raikkonen to win the British Grand Prix for Ferrari on Sunday and celebrate his 10th victory in 11 races. It was the 80th win of the German's career. But he had a late scare when the deployment of the safety car 15 laps from the end, after Italian Jarno Trulli's Renault piled into the tire wall, offered the young Finn a glimmer of hope. The six-times world champion, smooth and controlled as ever, quickly snuffed out the threat to take the chequered flag as Kimi Raikkonen finished 2.1 seconds behind. "It took away the comfortable lead I had built up by that stage," said the German of the intervention. "The safety car was going very, very slowly around. It didn't look like he was putting any effort into his drive." It was Schumacher's third success at Silverstone, the circuit where he broke his leg in 1999, as well as dominant Ferrari's third in a row there. Raikkonen was second to revive McLaren with their first podium finish of the season, while Rubens Barrichello held off BAR's British hopeful Jenson Button for third place. "At least we got the second place," said Raikkonen, last season's overall runner-up, after his first podium since Japan last October. "I got close but not close enough." Schumacher has 100 points to Barrichello's 74. Button has 53. Ferrari lead the constructors's championship with 174 points to Renault's 79. BAR has 67. Barrichello, second in the championship and last year's British winner, remained the only driver to have scored points in every race this season. |
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