Michael Schumacher won the European Grand Prix in Nuerburgring, Germany, for the sixth time Sunday with his second consecutive Formula One victory.
Schumacher left Fernando Alonso the runner-up for the second race in a row.
Schumacher raised his finger as he crossed the line almost four seconds ahead of Alonso. He led by nearly six seconds entering the last lap.
Schumacher, racing in his home country, has won the European GP five times at Nuerburgring and in Spain in 1994. This was his 86th career victory.
It didn’t look good for Schumacher earlier in the season. After second place in Bahrain, he was sixth in Malaysia and then crashed in Australia. Two weeks ago, Schumacher won the San Marino Grand Prix from the pole.
“If you finish first, what can you say?” Schumacher said. “That way it makes everybody happy who wants to see us winning.”
On Sunday, he overtook Alonso on the second pit stop after the 42nd lap of the 60-lap race.
Alonso, who won the title last year, started the race from the pole, the first time he has done so this season. Schumacher started second.
Felipe Massa, Schumacher’s Ferrari teammate, was third on the 3.2-mile course, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen of McLaren- Mercedes.
NHRA: Doug Kalitta raced to his second straight top fuel victory and moved into second place in the championship standings, beating series leader Melanie Troxel in the final of the Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals in Commerce, Ga.
Kalitta had a run of 4.469 seconds at 327.57 mph to beat Troxel, who smoked her tires 100 feet into the race. Troxel has a 132-point lead over Kalitta in the season standings.
Tony Pedregon, Dave Connolly and Antron Brown also won their divisions in the $1.5 million event at Atlanta Dragway.
Pedregon won the funny car final, beating Robert Hight with a 4.740-second run at 325.69 mph, and Connolly became the seventh different pro stock winner of the season when he edged Greg Stanfield in 6.695 at 205.69 mph.
