MOTORSPORTS ROUNDUP Schumacher claims 12th victory in Formula One
The Hungarian Grand Prix was his 12th win in 13 tries this season.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Michael Schumacher won the Hungarian Grand Prix, becoming the first Formula One driver with 12 victories in a season.
Schumacher, who has failed to win just once this season, took the lead on the first turn and never trailed.
Teammate Rubens Barrichello finished second, giving Ferrari its sixth straight constructors' championship with five races left.
Schumacher also became the first to win seven consecutive races in a season. Italy's Alberto Ascari won nine straight, but that was over two seasons (1952-53) and in a different era.
IRL
SPARTA, Ky. -- Adrian Fernandez posted the first win of his Indy Racing League IndyCar Series career, holding off Buddy Rice at Kentucky Speedway.
Fernandez beat Rice, a three-time series winner this year, by 0.0581 of a second. Dan Wheldon, Kosuke Matsuura and series points leader Tony Kanaan rounded out the top five.
Champ Car
DENVER -- Sebastien Bourdais passed Paul Tracy with 10 laps left to win the Grand Prix of Denver.
Bumped early by teammate Bruno Junqueira, Bourdais passed four cars to move into ninth place within 10 laps and kept working his way through the 1.65-mile course until he had won for the fifth time this year.
Bourdais took the checkered flag 7.446 seconds ahead of Tracy and increased his Champ Car points lead to 56 over Junqueira.
NHRA
BRAINERD, Minn. -- Funny Car driver Eric Medlen and Pro Stocks driver David Connolly each earned their first career wins Sunday at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.
Medlen turned in a 4.999-second pass at 302.62 mph, beating three-time champion Gary Scelzi at the $1.6 million event.
Connolly beat Greg Anderson, the defending Pro Stock champion and current points leader, in 6.799 at 203.31. Anderson had earned 12 victories in the first 16 events of the season.
Tony Schumacher earned his sixth Top Fuel win of the season in 4.615 seconds at 321.96, beating points leader David Grubnics.
In Pro Stock Bike, Craig Treble defeated three-time champion Angelle Savoie in 7.199 at 183.
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