FIA awards today win to Fisichella

By role
April 14 2003

Not only that, the winner did not step on the top of the podium at all during the winning ceremony, as he was initially declared second when the race was stopped. If you are still reading this and you want to read more bizarre things that happened on this race:

The winner had to park his car on the pits as the engine caught fire following the safety car. Also the driver who finished 3rd, Alonso, did not even made it to the podium as he was the one who crashed setting the red flags, he was rushed to the Hospital where he had to spend 12 hours in observation. He crashed with the debris left after the crash of Webber who was declared 7th at the end of the race and now with the revision has been declared 9th.

Moved to 7th is now Alonso's teammate who was seen at the end of the race pushing his Renault through the track, as we believe he was trying to park the car someplace.

On 8th it was Ralf Schumacher, a driver who had spinned earlier on an incident with Trulli and who some rumor may have had missed a yellow flag and overtook Verstappen but was not caught by the marshals.

Verstappen did not finish the race as he spin on turn 3, as 6 other drivers, but his team boss, Paul Stoddart, declared they could have won the race. It would have been Minardi first GP win.

Sounds bizarre and strange? That is Formula 1 2003, next stop Imola, enjoy the show!

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