Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers.
If you pull away from someone that you have had close links with, you deliberately become less close to them. Other daughters, faced with their mother's emotional hunger, pull away He'd pulled away from her as if she had leprosy
pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
When a vehicle or driver pulls away, the vehicle starts moving forward. I stood in the driveway and watched him back out and pull away