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Facts and Figures: F1 2000
Posted: Sunday October 22, 2000 12:53 PM
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Michael Schumacher's win in Malaysia capped a world championship season. Clive Mason/Allsport |
SEPANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Main facts and figures
from the 2000 Formula One season which ended on Sunday:
Germany's Michael Schumacher, winning the third world
championship of his career after titles with Benetton in 1994
and 1995, was Ferrari's first champion since South African Jody
Scheckter in 1979.
Schumacher was the first triple champion since the late
Brazilian Ayrton Senna took his third crown in 1991. France's
Alain Prost won his fourth title in 1993.
It was the first season in which just two teams won
everything since 1988, when McLaren had 15 wins and Ferrari one.
It was only the eighth time since 1950 that two teams have shut
out all the others.
Ferrari's two titles took their total tally since the first
championship in 1950 to 20, a record lifting them clear of
McLaren on 19. Ferrari's 2000 constructors' title was a record
10th, one more than Williams.
Ferrari broke their team record for the number of wins (10)
and constructors' points (170) in a single season. McLaren hold
the overall record of 199 points from 1988.
Michael Schumacher, with 44 wins, surpassed Senna's 41
victory total. Only Prost, with 51, remains ahead of the German.
Schumacher is now second in the list of all-time points
scorers, with 678. Prost scored 789 and a half.
Schumacher took nine poles for a career tally to date of 32.
That is the fourth highest tally ever and ranks the German
alongside Briton Nigel Mansell. Senna took 65.
Schumacher, with nine wins, equalled the record for the
number of victories in a single season.
He also won nine with Benetton in 1995 and shares the record
with Briton Nigel Mansell, who did it with Williams in 1992.
For the 24th time, the winner of the season-opening race
went on to take the title. Schumacher also won the first races
of the season in 1994 and 1995.
The Japanese circuit of Suzuka provided the
championship-winning race for the eighth time since 1987.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was the only first time winner
of the season, ending a run of 123 starts without success to
triumph at Hockenheim in Germany in July.
Briton Eddie Irvine secured Jaguar's first points in Formula
One and Canadian Jacques Villeneuve did the same for BAR.
Briton Jenson Button became the youngest points scorer in
Formula One history when he finished sixth at the Brazilian
Grand Prix in March aged 20 years and two months.
Four drivers made their race debuts in 2000 -- Button at
Williams, German Nick Heidfeld at Prost, Brazilian Luciano Burti
at Jaguar (as a one-race stand in for Irvine) and Argentina's
Gaston Mazzacane at Minardi.
Italian fire marshal Paolo Ghislimberti died at Monza in
September from head and chest injuries caused by flying debris.
He was the first fatality at a Formula One race since Senna was
killed at Imola in 1994.
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