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How speed and smart thinking gave Schumacher the victory at Imola
There was a mistaken perception that Fernando Alonso showed superior pace to easily catch Michael Schumacher during the second stint of the San Marino Grand Prix. And from there it was easy to conclude that Renault made a strategic error by pitting before Schumacher when the evidence suggested that Fernando would overhaul Michael by the simple expedient of running further.
If you were watching TV, that's certainly the way it looked. Fernando had been bottled up behind Massa's Ferrari while Michael stretched out a 13-second gap. Fernando had then run five laps further than Schuey before his first pitstop, which was timed at 9.1 seconds as against Schumacher's 8.3-second stop.
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