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SIMPLY SUPERB; F1 gets its second straight first-time winner.(Motorsports)
Byline: NIGEL ROEBUCK
Istanbul provided what Formula One has wanted to see all season: a fight on the track between the two world championship protagonists, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher.
There was something of the kind at San Marino in April, but everyone knows you can't pass at Imola, and there Schumacher's Ferrari easily held off Alonso's faster Renault.
But Istanbul Park has several overtaking spots, and here the Renault and the Ferrari are more evenly matched. Alonso beat Schumacher by eighty-one-thousandths of a second after many laps of high tension.
Alonso and Schumacher were not, however, fighting for the win. Five seconds earlier Schumacher's teammate, Felipe Massa, had taken the flag, and became the second new F1 winner in two races after Jenson Button in Hungary.
Massa was fabulous all weekend, even beating Schumacher to the pole. Before the race Massa said he would stick to the role traditionally required of Ferrari's second driver-to help Schumacher to the title-but no opportunity arose. Massa led from the start, and the superstars simply couldn't match his pace. Massa's win moved him up to third place in the championship.
Afterward Massa was in tears: "Everything was good today, the balance all the way through, and all the tires. I had a great start, and never had to drive aggressively. All my life I've been waiting for this.''
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