
Michael Schumacher intends to cap a record-breaking Formula One season by going flat out for victory in Sunday’s final Japanese Grand Prix.
Ferrari’s world champion may have inadvertently gifted teammate Rubens Barrichello victory at the last race in America in a backfiring attempt to engineer a photo-finish, but it will not happen again.
After consternation and dismay at Ferrari’s antics at Indianapolis nine days ago, Schumacher is not about to let the Brazilian collect a third win in a row. The German has won for the last two years at Suzuka and wants a hat-trick to celebrate his 11th win of 2002.
“After all it is the last race of the season and therefore I would love to win and leave for the winter break with a victory,” he said before leaving for Japan. “I really like that track,” he added of Suzuka. “We at Ferrari have always been traditionally pretty good there. Suzuka was always a good track for us.” (Reuters)


