For the Record, It’s 12 Wins for Schumacher

Michael Schumacher has another record after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest on Sunday, becoming the first Formula One driver to win 12 times in a season.

Schumacher has failed to win only once in the most lopsided season in the sport’s history.

Starting from the pole position with Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello beside him, Schumacher took the lead on the first turn and never trailed.

Schumacher, 35, can wrap up an unprecedented seventh drivers’ title in two weeks at the Belgian Grand Prix. He and Barrichello, who finished second, gave Ferrari its sixth consecutive constructors’ championship with five races left.

Schumacher also became the first to win seven consecutive races in a season. Alberto Ascari won nine in a row, but that was over two seasons (1952-53) and in a different era.

Schumacher, whose time was 1 hour 35 minutes 26.131 seconds, averaged 119.799 mph. He led Barrichello by 20 seconds with 20 laps to go in the 70-lap event but slowed down at the end, allowing Barrichello to finish 4.4 seconds behind.

Renault’s Fernando Alonso finished third, 44.5 seconds behind.

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Tony Stewart overcame an upset stomach and leg cramps to win the Sirius at the Glen race at Watkins Glen International, one of two road-course races each year on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit.

The 2002 series and Watkins Glen champion got his second win of the season and the 19th of his career. He complained of feeling ill early in the race but decided to stay in the car.

Stewart, who started fourth after qualifying was canceled because of a wet track and the field was set by car-owner points, led 46 of 90 laps on the 11-turn layout. His Chevrolet beat that of road-course star Ron Fellows by 1.517 seconds.

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Bumped to 13th place coming out of the race’s first turn, Sebastien Bourdais weaved his way through the field in his Ford-Cosworth and passed Paul Tracy with 10 laps left to win the Grand Prix of Denver.

Bourdais earned the pole after becoming the first driver in race history to break the one-minute barrier during qualifying, only to have his advantage taken away in the opening seconds when he was bumped by Newman-Haas teammate Bruno Junqueira.

But Bourdais passed four cars to move into ninth place with 10 laps left and worked his way up to win for the fifth time this year. He took the checkered flag 7.446 seconds ahead of Tracy.

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Adrian Fernandez posted the first win of his Indy Racing League career, holding off Buddy Rice at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta.

Fernandez’s victory in the Belterra Casino Indy 300 comes in his first year on the IRL circuit after winning eight times in Champ Car competition.

Driving a Panoz G Force-Honda, he beat Rice, a three-time series winner this year, by 0.0581 of a second.

Pro Football

Willis McGahee scored the go-ahead touchdown on a one-yard run and gained 58 yards in 13 carries in his NFL debut, and the Buffalo Bills beat the Denver Broncos, 16-6, in an exhibition game at Orchard Park, N.Y. McGahee, the Bills’ first-round draft choice in 2003, sat out his rookie season while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery.

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San Francisco 49er fullback Fred Beasley could be sidelined until the season opener Sept. 12 against the Atlanta Falcons because of a high left ankle sprain. He suffered the injury in the first quarter of Saturday night’s 33-30 exhibition loss to the Oakland Raiders.... Running back Bruce Perry of the Philadelphia Eagles will sit out his rookie season after dislocating a shoulder during Friday night’s 24-6 exhibition loss to the New England Patriots.

Golf

Jane Park of Rancho Cucamonga won the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Erie, Pa., clinching her first U.S. Golf Assn. title when Amanda McCurdy bogeyed the 36th and final hole. The 17-year-old Park, who finished second last year, beat McCurdy, a 20-year-old junior at Arkansas, 2 up.

Soccer

Reserve forward Toni Nhleko, who entered the match in the 81st minute, scored on a header one minute into stoppage time, leading the Dallas Burn to a 1-0 victory over the MetroStars in a Major League Soccer game at East Rutherford, N.J.

Miscellany

Sixth-seeded Rafael Nadal won his first ATP singles title, defeating Jose Acasuso, 6-3, 6-4, in the final of the Idea Prokom Open at Sopot, Poland.

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Jeremy Roenick of the Philadelphia Flyers paid more than $100,000 to a Florida firm that made millions selling betting tips to gamblers, law enforcement officials told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Roenick was never the target of an investigation and was not involved in any illegal activity, said Lee County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Johnston, who worked with the FBI on an investigation of the firm. Investigators said they found no evidence that Roenick bet on hockey.

Roenick said he stopped gambling in January after a warning from Flyer General Manager Bob Clarke. Roenick said the Flyers did not know about his association with the tip service.

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Tyler Farrar of Team Health Net beat two-time champion Jonas Carney of Team Jelly Belly at the finish line to win the men’s pro cycling event in the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix at Live Oak Park.

Farrar, Carney and third-place finisher Robbie Ventura were several meters behind the lead group heading into the final lap of a 90-minute race over a 1.4-mile course. But they caught and passed the pack down the stretch, and Farrar edged Carney by less than half a bike length.

Tina Pic of Team Genesis won the women’s pro race. Nicole Freedman of Team Basis finished second.