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18-Aug: At the post Race press conference for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello was delighted with clinching the Constructors' title for Ferrari and said "I think the most important thing is to have clinched the constructors' (title). I think it's, for the team, I think Michael has said many times how good they are and how good we are together so it is just a day of commemoration. Sometimes you feel like you only have to do this or that to win the championship and you feel a little bit under pressure, but after all we had a great car, a great team, great pit stops, great everything today."
Rubens described his race and particularly his start as a dream and said "I couldn't believe when I looked behind and I was like two cars ahead, I said, Jesus, just stay cool and don't brake too late. It was a dream, really, to start from first place because I knew from last year that by starting third, I had so much of a chance to overtake David. So it was very clean on my side and I had a real good jump and off I went. It was really good.
Everything was good. Initially we tried to save a little bit of the rear tyres just to see if we could have any problems, but during the race we had no problems at all, not with any kind of temperature problem on the tyre, anything, I mean anything, anything that we might have suspected, there was no problem. We just had a fantastic race in terms of everything, especially for me, tyres or engine, everything was really perfect."
When asked if he was worried about Michael trying to overtake him, he said "Well, when you have such a champion - I'm not saying this because he's here or because he's my team-mate - but when you have such a champion behind you, he's always a pressure. It doesn't matter the situation, there's always a difficult race, especially in Hungary because you always have the chance of running off the track. The track was particularly very dirty on the outside so it was so easy to make a mistake today, to miss the race and to miss points. I still felt it was very difficult. We had to keep concentrating and physically it wasn't easy as well, so it was a hard race but a good one."
Rubens indicated his shock when he saw Michael close in on him towards the end of the race and said "To be honest with you, I didn't pay attention much. I was looking in the mirror... I felt like asking Ross if there was a problem with Michael or not, because I didn't know what was going on. I saw that all the time my board was shown, his board was there too. Suddenly, I wasn't looking in my mirror, and his board wasn't there any more and my one was there. So I felt like asking, but I said OK, I just concentrate and see... Then all of a sudden, I had Boom! I saw a car behind me and I said 'Jesus Christ! He must have done a quick lap.' But Ross said, there was five laps to go, he said don't worry, he's having fun!"

Michael Schumacher struggled at the start but still managed to keep second and said "It was not very pleasant to have to try to start from the position. It felt like we sort of started on ice and that made obviously the situation tight into the first corner, where Ralf naturally tried to squeeze me from the outside, but I was lucky being up enough to stay late on the brakes and stay in the position, but it was a very fair manoeuvre from him not to do anything in the wrong way but obviously we know each other not to do so and that allowed me to stay right behind Rubens and drive home, the race we did."
Michael admitted that until Rubens secures second in the Drivers' Championship, they won't be racing against each other and said "It is very clear that we want to make sure that Rubens sort of does the job in order to get the second position in the championship and until this, obviously, to some degree, we are not completely open to race because there's no point in me taking points away from him, that's not the intention. Let's hope that happens soon and then we can have good fun again."
Michael also admitted that setting the fastest lap time was a payback to Rubens and said "The story behind it actually, was that at Silverstone, he (Rubens) was behind me and we sort of slowed down the pace, we didn't push hard any more, and some laps before the end, he put in the fastest lap of the race. So I asked 'when did you do this?' We were in the stage of actually slowing down, so today I asked Ross, 'what's the fastest time?' and he said it was 16.8s for him (Rubens) so I thought OK, I will pay him back! I just went for it."

Ralf Schumacher was happy to finish third as he didn't expect it and said "To be honest, we didn't expect to be third here this weekend. That was our target but we had such a bad weekend except for qualifying and the race today, so we are totally happy. We were the only car out there being able to stay in reasonable distance at least and the team did simply a great job, the pit stops were brilliant and I am very happy."
Ralf admitted that Ferrari are still too strong for them despite being able to match their pace at some stages of the race and said "Well, for us it seems that the tyre throughout the race gets better and better and that's basically the case. They usually start on new tyres which is an advantage for the first five, six, seven laps maybe compared to us but then we start to stabilise. But by that time, usually, it's a bit late, as we saw again today. But whatever, even if that had stabilised there was no chance. As in previous races, they are still too strong for us."
Ralf also indicated that he didn't have a chance of passing Michael at the start and said "No, there was never a chance. He was on the inside and he decided to brake late and I knew that there was no chance. The problem is, especially in turn one, that as soon as you come off the line, there is so much dirt and stuff that usually you lose the back end and lose even more positions, so I decided to back off and stay inside and to take the third, safe option."

18-Aug: What the teams and drivers said following the Race at the Hungaroring ... Report

18-Aug: Hungarian GP – Race: Rubens Barrichello wins the race ahead of Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher. Kimi Raikkonen, David Coulthard and Giancarlo Fisichella make the top 6 ... Timed Results ... Report ... Notes
Ferrari clinched the Constructors' Championship

18-Aug: Honda announced today that they have reached an agreement with Jordan to terminate their engine supply deal at the end of the season. It was widely speculated that this would happen and that Honda wanted to focus on a single team and that was British American Racing. 
Takeo Fukui, Senior Managing Director at the Honda Motor Corporation said "We appreciate very much the two years that we have worked together with Jordan Grand Prix. We will obviously continue to do our best for the last five races of the year. We'd like to give everybody at Jordan Grand Prix our best wishes for the future and look forward to some exciting racing during the 2003 season and beyond."

Shortly afterwards, the Jordan team announced a 3 year deal with Ford for the supply of Cosworth engines from 2003. Eddie Jordan was delighted with the announcement and said "Today we're happy and proud Jordan, Ford and Cosworth will be working together for the next three years or so. It's a very big day for Jordan.
It means the car next year will be a Jordan-Ford, with the blue oval back in Formula One, which is for me very exciting news. I think we should all rejoice a day when Ford publicly announce they are coming back into Formula One.
We worked with Cosworth as a customer in 1991 and we thought we would get a Ford participation in those early days, but maybe we were a bit too naive. 
Finally Ford and ourselves have eventually got together, which is fantastic. I'm slightly surprised it's happened so quickly because we only got the signatures on the contract last night." 
Brushing aside earlier comments by Jaguar's boss Niki Lauda who claimed the Cosworth offer is for customer engines, Eddie Jordan said "It's a proper Ford-related partnership, with dedicated people inside Cosworth who will be exclusively dedicated to Jordan."

18-Aug: Hungarian GP – Warm-up Session: Michael Schumacher sets the fastest time of the session ahead of Rubens Barrichello and Kimi Raikkonen. Giancarlo Fisichella, Takuma Sato and Ralf Schumacher make the top 6 ... Timed Results ... Report  ... Notes

Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix Schedule:

Session Time (Local / GMT) - Current local time
Friday Practice Session 1
Friday Practice Session 2
Saturday Practice Session 1
Saturday Practice Session 2
Qualifying Session
Warm-up Session
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11 AM Budapest Time / 9 AM GMT
1 PM Budapest Time / 11 AM GMT
9:00 AM Budapest Time / 7:00 AM GMT 
10:15 AM Budapest Time / 8:15 AM GMT
1:00 PM
Budapest Time / 11:00 AM GMT
9:30 AM Budapest Time / 7:30 AM GMT
2:00 PM
Budapest Time / 12 PM GMT
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