Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Fifth F1 World Championship
From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:30:22 -0400

Yes! Back OT, I did notice a guy in the crowd (as MS was climbing out of 
and up on his car), holding a black M with what looked like the 28 over 
the heads of the crowds of guys with SLRs, trying to get his shot.

Gilbert

On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 11:20  AM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote:

> For those who care, Michael Schumacher, driving for Ferrari, tied a 
> world
> record that many race fans believed would endure in perpetuity: Juan 
> Manuel
> Fangio's five world championships. In winning the French Grand Prix at
> Magny-Cours this afternoon, Schumacher clinched the championship, his 
> third
> in a row, with six races still to be run, the earliest the championship 
> has
> ever been won. Fangio is the only other G.P. driver to have won three
> consecutive championships.
>
> Schumacher has 61 Formula One wins in 173 race starts; next most 
> victories is
> Alain Prost with 51. Prost also won four world championships, Ayrton 
> Senna
> three.
>
> Ferrari is closing on its fourth consecutive world constructor's
> championship. Chapeaux to Michael and the entire Ferrari Scuderia.

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