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Schumacher Wins The German Grand Prix again
By Julie Smith

Schumacher won the Formula One race at Hockenheim, Germany. This represents his fourth victory in the German Grand Prix, the fifth triumph this season and third one in a row. This one is also, Schumacher's 70th victory for the team Ferrari and 100th for the team Bridgestone, which is his tire provider.

Schumacher's teammate, Felipe Massa, kept the pace about 2.5 seconds of him throughout the race, and finished only 0.7 seconds behind. Massa moved into third place in the drivers' series with 50 points, one point ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and Kimi Raikkonen, both of them have 49 points. This was the second time Massa finishes in second position in his career.

Schumacher's victory and Massa's second place locate the team Ferrari to 10 points from Renault for the lead in the constructors' series, which Renault leads with 149 points, since this is Ferrari's second 1-2 finish of the season.

Raikkonen who ended up third declared he didn't do that well on this race due to his car experienced some technical problems like: a crossed

wheel nut, blistered tires and some kind of issue with the hydraulics.

Schumacher took the lead after Raikkonen pulled off for his first pit stop on the 10th lap and the German never let it go, even through his own pit stops on the 20th and 45th lap.

A difficult race with a hot weather, it was ran under hot skies, reaching 34-degree Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) air temperature and a 50-degree (122 Fahrenheit) track, in the last 10 of the 67-laps. Mark Webber who races for Williams, with eight laps left, abruptly slowed and dropped out of the race from fifth position and his engine caught fire just as he entered the pit lane, apparently because of a water leak which is critical for an engine. Of the 22 cars that were participating of the race eight couldn't finish either because of accidents or breakdowns.