(I know i spelt it wrong) Even though he's german you have to hand it to him, he's had an excellent F1 career and must surely be the best all round driver of all time.
F1 will will get even duller next year.
2006-10-21 12:39:03 · 26 answers · asked by Lewisthelab 4 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing
In my opinion Ayrton Senna was the best of all times, even if he didn't win the most races or titles, he brought to Formula One this special touch that I have not seen since his departure and that was what made him the best.
Schumacher is an awesome driver, one I have an enormous amount of respect for, but there was one thing that was missing and that was the raw talent that Senna had. Schumi was good because he was quick and gained so much experienced that he learned how to win and today he knows how to win.
One factor we must take into account though is that each driver is a product of their own times. Schumi is the best of his generation as Senna was the best in his, and others like Jim Clark or Juan Manuel Fangio were in theirs. One driver may be on a high whilst another may be losing it, that is one thing we are currently seeing with Alonso and Schumi.
I think if we really wanted to see who the best one is, we would need to organize a championship where each candidate would have to have identical cars and would have to race whilst at the best level in their careers. Sadly this is not possible, Senna, Clark, Villeneuve, Hill and Fangio are all dead, Schumi is not as good as he once was and Hakkinen, Prost, Mansell, Piquet, Lauda, Stewart, Moss and Brabham are all too old at this point.
2006-10-21 17:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by d_leoncavallo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Without question he is one of the best F1 drivers ever but not of all time. He has of course had numerous wins and high points scoring results but do not forget the winning is down to the team and the back room boys/girls - and he has had the best! Most of the time he has been fortunate to have the fastest racing car which he always drives with perfection. It is a fact though that modern F1 racing cars almost drive themselves and are kept in trim by their top engineering team - and modern computer information updates. Without his strong team and vehicle he would be just another excellent driver. If all F1 racing cars were equal in performance do you not believe the other drivers would have a greater share of the pole positions and the wins.
My view is that many of the old time racing drivers who drove by the seats of their pants, would give any of the present F1 drivers a good run for their money in similar powered vehicles.
2006-10-21 13:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont neccesarily agree, he's a magnificent motive force yet his sportsmanship leaves plenty to be wanted,and also you've were given to keep in mind that ppl like Stirling Moss,Jackie Stewart and so on, were in basic terms as 'gung ho' at the back of the wheel yet did no longer have the technologies and each and every of the safe practices measures in position so that they were probable extra 'bold' ,taking under consideration the variety of deaths in holding with season some time previous then were a minimum of triple the variety of todays fatalities, each and every year in the 60's and 70's drivers were pushing it too a concepts and going out in a ball of flames, now the F1 drivers are scared to lose an eyelash and F1 is basically a parade of severe priced vehicles, no authentic racing in any respect, it is a attitude recreation now and that i lost all activity in F1 at the same time as Shumacher began using for Ferrari. he's an outstanding motive force and in the accurate 10 yet definately no longer the perfect in my opinion.
2016-12-05 02:13:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the former glories of Formula 1 are a lot greater than MS. Simply because of their personality. Except for Prost and Senna, who were rivals almost to the death, which one of the great champions has tried to ram someone off the track? Or park his car on track to stop rivals from beating his time?
And F1 won't get duller next year, because with MS gone, there will be a lot more drivers in contention for the championship.
2006-10-21 19:34:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is certainly not the Greatest Driver of All Time, he is the driver that has had the least competition of all time! He has also been in F1 a lot longer than many of the other greats, and though he has a lot of records, it took him a lot longer and a greater number of races to achieve them.
If you work out his 'records' in percentages of races contested, he would not hold all of those records anymore!
In theory F1 will get better next year due to the greater level of competition his retirement will bring, and the reshuffling of drivers and team personnel.
But he will be missed, I'm no Schumacher fan, but I still respect him as the Greatest Driver of His Time.
2006-10-21 23:17:23 · answer #5 · answered by Red Five 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is the pope a Catholic?
Did the three bears sh*t in the woods?
Was Humpty Dumpty FAT?
They'll never be another F1 Driver like Michael, not in my lifetime that's for sure. In his illustrious 15yr career he's achieved so much, broken all records, done more for F1 both on and off the track and been the greatest ambassador for the sport in general.
Looks like he's about to get his 69th Pole Position in his final qualifying session in Brazil.
2006-10-21 12:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by shuey71 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
looking at whats ahead its going to take a long time to beat that record, hes going to go down as the juan manuel fangio of the 21st century
statistically hes definitely the best driver ever and thats no question, there is a lot of analysing that is actually suggesting that the older drivers were better as formula 1 has changed over the years
if you use old points scoring systems and consider that it was harder to drive, more dangerous, cars were faster and drivers were less fit than now even but drove with a 'banzai' style that relied more on adrenaline then michael schumacher may not be the greatest driver overall
a lot of people are spilt between fangio (who is possibly the greatest), ascari (who they reckon would have overtaken fangio had he not met an early end) or senna as he showed an insecurity that meant he had to 'know' he was the greatest
he ould win at any cost but wasnt afriad to have the greatest driver sitting alongside him in a car (dont forget prost shared schumachers position of being the greatest statistically for years but many people came to the conclusion that senna was faster)
2006-10-21 14:47:55 · answer #7 · answered by tony h 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
OK someone has to be the boring geek & find the statistics so it might as well be me .... http://f1-facts.com/statistics/drivers
He definitely has it on statistics & no-one can say he isn't a great driver, not sure about personality, it seems to me that the whole sport was more fun & exciting in years past, the drivers seemed to have more character then - now it's all about the $$$ behind the team so they can buy the best expertise/technology & the management now spend half their time whinging over technicalities in the rule book ....
2006-10-21 13:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by Mari C 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Every sport needs a villain and in the last few years the media/press started labeling him a cheater.
He was good for the sport. He was talented and if Ayrton Senna would have been around about five years ago they could have had some great challenges.
2006-10-21 12:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Sal G 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Certainly the greatest, the statistics are there to prove that! But by a long shot, no-where near the best! Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Jackie Stewart, Gerhard Berger, Alain Prost and Stirling Moss would still consider him a bit of an amateur!
2006-10-21 13:00:57 · answer #10 · answered by alfie 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋