Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.

His driving partner there was Ralf Schumacher, the younger brother of Michael.

Over the weekend of the 2000 Indianapolis 500, Williams-BMW announced a two-year deal for Montoya to partner Ralf Schumacher starting in 2001.

In the next race, the Austrian Grand Prix, Montoya finally outpaced his teammate Ralf Schumacher in qualifying and took a career-best second.

With Ralf out, the five drivers, led by Michael Schumacher began to zero in on Montoya at over a second a lap.

He then tried to pressurize teammate Ralf Schumacher to make a mistake, but it was he himself who made the mistake, by sliding into the barriers on the Swimming Pool section on lap 3.

The ninth round of the season was the European Grand Prix and Montoya held pole for most of qualifying only for both Michael and Ralf Schumacher to bump him down to third in the final seconds.

Although he did not win a race, unlike Coulthard and his team mate Ralf Schumacher, Montoya was one of the few drivers to compete with Schumacher on the track.

In practice for the Monaco Grand Prix Montoya was penalized to start from the back by race stewards for brake-testing his former Williams team mate, Ralf Schumacher, causing a four car collision.

His race ended when towards the end of the race he hit a kerb on the exit of the final corner, while chasing Ralf Schumacher hard for third place.

Räikkönen failed to finish the after being involved in an accident at the first corner with Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello.

In 2001, there was the first sibling 1 – 2 finish in the history of Formula 1, as Ralf and Michael Schumacher topped the podium.

On lap 67, Takuma Sato overtook McLaren-Mercedes's Fernando Alonso, to cheers around the circuit, just after overtaking Ralf Schumacher and having overtaken Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen earlier in the race.

Nonetheless, in 2007, a groundhog disrupted the practice session of Ralf Schumacher.

Ralf Schumacher ( born 30 June 1975 ) is a German racing driver, and the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher.

Ralf Schumacher made his Formula One debut in with the Jordan team.

This time Michael Schumacher was out-raced by his younger brother Ralf who had a much more powerful car for this race.

Ralf Schumacher in 2002 during his tenure with Wiliams

Ralf Schumacher driving for the WilliamsF1 | Williams-BMW F1 team in 2003

Ralf Schumacher earned Toyota their first point of the season by finishing in eighth place in the Australian Grand Prix, one place ahead of team-mate Jarno Trulli.

Ralf Schumacher helmet's design is similar to his brother's, Ralf's helmet being yellow with a black top circled with astroids

When the German Grand Prix was part of the Formula One calendar, a German driver did not win until 1995 ; Michael Schumacher won that year and has won 4 times in total ; and his brother Ralf won in 2001.

Ralf finished 10th overall in his second Formula One season.

After a slow but confident start and despite scoring at every race, Ralf did not manage to get onto the podium until the eighth round in Montreal, where he finished 2nd.

Button finished his impressive debut season in eighth place with 12 points ( Ralf Schumacher finished fifth with 24 ).

Ralf Schumacher, who had started from pole position, finished in fourth place.

In the team achieved its best ever result when drivers Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher finished first and second at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Ralf Schumacher leading Jarno Trulli at the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix, where Trulli finished in 4th place.

Ralf finished 6th at the Hungarian GP, as the only other significant result for the team.

Ralf Schumacher scored a point for finishing 8th, and at the following event at Indianapolis, Trulli finished in 6th place.

Irvine finished second, the highest finish of his career at that point, with Ralf Schumacher in third.

On lap one Häkkinen led David Coulthard by over a second, and was three seconds ahead of Heinz-Harald Frentzen in third, Ralf Schumacher spun out on the first lap at the fourth corner, meaning that he had not finished a single lap, so far in the season.

Hill's team-mate, Ralf Schumacher finished in second position, with Jean Alesi finishing in third driving for Sauber.

In the remaining points-scoring places, Jos Verstappen scored Arrows best result of the season with fourth place, 7. 5 seconds behind Ralf Schumacher, Alexander Wurz scored his only points finish of the year in fifth place and Ricardo Zonta finished sixth for British American Racing.

Ralf Schumacher, in his first full season, managed to get onto the podium after he finished third.

In 2001, Ralf emerged as a future star achieving his first three Grand Prix wins at Imola, Montreal and Hockenheim.

The directorial positions at MPE attained their current status with the appointment of Professor Günther Hasinger ( X-ray astronomy ) and Professor Ralf Bender ( optical and interpretative astronomy ) in the years 2001 and 2002.

The 2001 race is also notable for two brothers, Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher, sharing a row on the starting grid for the first time.

Coach Ralf Rangnick had started a restructuring of the team that won the UI Cup, but the resulting extra strain of the UEFA cup participation ended in barely escaping from relegation in 2001 by clinching 15th spot.

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British comedy television series sitcom than ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011 and starring Sheridan Smith, Will Mellor, Ralf Little, Natalie Casey, Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Gell.

The project was started by Ralf Habacker in May 2001.

From 1999 to 2000, Smith played Emma, the girlfriend of Antony ( Ralf Little ) in The Royle Family, but has not appeared in later episodes ; she has also played Janet in the long-running series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, the girlfriend, then wife, then widow of Johnny ( also portrayed by Ralf Little ) from 2001 until her departure from the show in 2009.