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French Grand Prix: Facts and Figures Posted: Wednesday July 02, 2003 11:46 AMMAGNY-COURS, France (Reuters) -- Facts and figures for Sunday's French Formula One Grand Prix: Venue: Circuit de Nevers, Magny Cours. Race distance: 70 laps (308.586 km/191.755 miles) each lap is 4.411 km/2.741 miles. Race lap record: David Coulthard (Britain) one minute 15.045 seconds (McLaren 2001, average speed 203.925 kph/126.713 mph). 2002 pole position: Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) Williams 1:11.985. NOTE: The circuit layout has changed since 2002. Records of leading drivers in France:
02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92
Michael Schumacher 1 1 R 5 1 1 NS 1 1 3 R
Rubens Barrichello NS 3 3 3 10 R 9 6 R 7 -
Juan Pablo Montoya 4 R - - - - - - - - -
Ralf Schumacher 5 2 5 4 16 6 - - - - -
David Coulthard 3 4 1 R 6 7 6 3 - - -
Kimi Raikkonen 2 7 - - - - - - - - -
Jenson Button 6 16 8 - - - - - - - -
Jarno Trulli R 5 6 7 R 10 10 - - - -
Nick Heidfeld 7 6 12 - - - - - - - -
Giancarlo Fisichella - 11 9 R 9 9 R - - - -
Jacques Villeneuve R R 4 R 4 4 2 - - - -
Olivier Panis R 9 - 8 11 - 7 8 R - -
Mark Webber 8 - - - - - - - - - -
Heinz-Harald Frentzen NQ 8 7 1 15 2 R 10 4 - -
Fernando Alonso - 17 - - - - - - - - -
Jos Verstappen - 13 R - - R R - R - -
R-retired, NS-non starter, NQ-non qualifier.
Resume of last five races at Magny-Cours: 2002 (Michael Schumacher, Ferrari) Michael Schumacher won to claim his fifth world title with six races to spare. Mclaren's Kimi Raikkonen was heading for his first win until he skidded on oil with five laps to go. 2001 (Schumacher, Ferrari) Michael Schumacher took his 50th career win and forced younger brother Ralf, who had secured the first pole of his career, to settle for second. Barrichello was third. 2000 (David Coulthard, McLaren) Coulthard revived his title challenge after accusing Michael Schumacher, who had led from pole for the first 24 laps and retired with engine problems 13 laps from the end, of unsporting and dangerous driving. 1999 (Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Jordan) A wet race gave Germany's Frentzen his first win for Jordan. Barrichello give Stewart a first pole. He led for six laps. 1998 (Schumacher, Ferrari) A Ferrari one-two with Schumacher taking the lead on a re-start. Eddie Irvine rode shotgun for most of the race, holding up the McLarens. Mika Hakkinen was third. Magny-Cours has undergone alterations for this year's race with a new chicane just before the start-finish line. "The changes don't make a massive difference: 80 to 85 percent of the circuit is still the same," says Renault test driver Franck Montagny, one of the few to have driven the new layout. "They have replaced a medium-slow corner with a hairpin, introduced another hairpin and a chicane," he said. "From a driving point of view, they are not necessarily the most challenging corners: the drivers will get used to the new section pretty quickly."
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