Quote Originally Posted by jens View Post
Wikipedia shows that Marques got his 9th places finishes in Brazil and Canada - both were races with lots of DNF-s. I don't remember Marques ever outshining Alonso during 2001 - it was Alonso, who had the skills to mix it with Benettons, Arrows, Burti, on occasion others, regularly. But reliability rates were pretty low that year, and if you happened to simply finish in the "right race", where lots of rivals fell off, you could get a good position.
Generally of course he didnt, but Malaysia saw Tarso out qualify him by half a second and run ahead most of the race until a tyre blow out I think.