2006-10-26 12:06:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing
YES!!!
Michael Schumacher
7 time FORMULA 1 CHAMP
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As of the end of the 2006 Formula One Season, Michael Schumacher holds the following F1 records:
Career Records:
Most championship titles: 7
Most consecutive championship titles: 5
Most race wins: 91
Most consecutive race wins: 7 (in 2004 - European GP, Canadian GP, United States GP, French GP, British GP, German GP, Hungarian GP; record shared with Alberto Ascari)
Most race wins with one team: 72 with Ferrari
Most race wins at the same GP: 8 at the French Grand Prix (Magny-Cours)
Most different GPs (by country) won: 20
Most time between first and last race wins: 14 years, 1 month and 2 days
Most second place finishes: 43
Most podium finishes: 154
Most consecutive podium finishes: 19 (from the 2001 United States Grand Prix, until the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix)
Most points finishes: 190
Most laps leading: 4741 (with a total of 22,155 kilometers (13,758 miles) in 131 Grands Prix)[48]
Most pole positions: 68
Most starts from first row: 108
Most fastest laps: 76
Most doubles (pole position and race win): 40
Most hat-trick (pole position, race win and fastest lap): 22
Most championship points: 1,369
Most consecutive race finished without retirement: 24 (from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, until the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix)
Most championship points in a season for a vice-world champion: 121 (out of a maximum of 180)
Most Wins in a season for a vice-world champion: 7 (ties Alain Prost and Kimi Räikkönen)
Only racing driver ever, in any racing class, to win 5 times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Only racing driver ever, in any racing class, to win 5 times at Autodromo Nazionale Monza
10 POINTS PLEASE!!
2006-10-26 12:11:59 · answer #1 · answered by alooz 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
That's the easiest question I've ever heard!
Michael Schumacher IS and ALWAYS will be the BEST Driver in Formula 1 History.
He may have had a few engine/car issues during his last few races.... but that doesn't define who he is as a driver... the facts are that there is no one even close to Schuey!!!
He was the #1 reason I watched Formula 1!!! It's going to be very weird next season when he is not there..... I don't know if I'll be into it as much without the LEADER of the pack being there.... I guess we shall see!?
YES!!! MICHAEL SCHUMACHER IS THE GREATEST DRIVER EVER IN FORMULA 1 HISTORY!! (Sorry Senna)
Read for yourself.... click the link below!
Love You Schuey!!!!!
2006-11-03 09:14:14 · answer #2 · answered by ImaSilyGrl 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's possible that there can never be answer to this question. As previously mentioned by other answers here, there will always be those who quote statistics and those who say the older drivers are the best. I'm one of the latter people and I think Prost was the greatest. But can you really compare?
The technology and money spent on F1 cars today far exceeds anything ever spent by teams in the past. So you could say that past drivers are better because they had inferior equipment. But nobody wins the number of races that Schumacher does without being a superb driver!
The only way it could be proven would be to take the likes of Senna, Prost, Piquet etc and race them in today's cars against Schumacher. Then send Schumacher back in time to do the same. Just waiting for that time machine to be available on Ebay....
So, whoever you think is the best, he's the best. For me, let's go back to the 80s, turbo chargers and the Ford DFV! Much better racing circuits too! But this is all my own opinion.....
2006-10-26 21:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by gfminis 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All the charts point out to him being the most succesful driver in F1. But being succesful doesn't make you great.
And Schumacher can't be great because, over the length of his career, he spilled at least 10 trucks full of eggs on his face.
1. Adelaide 1994. Schumacher cracks under pressure, goes off and damages his car. Damon Hill tries to overtake him after the German returns on the track, but all he gets is a Benneton crashing into and flying over his left-front wheel and bending one of his suspension rods, causing him to retire, this, in turn, giving MS the title.
2. Jerez 1997. Villeneuve tries an overtaking maneuver on Schumacher for the lead, which would have also brought him the championship. Schumacher tries to smash into Villeneuve's Williams, but all he does is lock up and slide off. The Canadian driver goes on to take 3rd and the championship, while MS is disqualified from 2nd in the championship.
3. Monaco 2006. No comment.
And many others along the way. I mean, the only drivers with which he fought level for the championship, in evenly-matched cars, were Hakkinen and Alonso. Mika could have won again, but unfortunately he lost his thirst for racing in F1. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004... all these were achieved with a car miles ahead (maybe except 2003). And with a teammate to block everyone else.
I agree with another answerer, it is a much greater achievement to have won 5 titles in cars that could have killed you in every turn of the track. That is why, in my mind, Juan Manuel Fangio is one of the greatest.
Plus MS had almost no real competition in his championship years. I mean, look at Senna and Prost. If they would have been in consecutive periods, I can guarantee each would have won as much as MS. But they didn't, because they were bitter rivals and that, in a way, helped the sport's image. It's good when you see more than a single driver competing for the championship.
2006-10-27 02:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Michael Schumacher became the main suitable of his era and that i'll place a large asterisk beside that, yet he became no longer 'the main suitable ever in the historic previous of F1.' for the time of his years with Ferrari, the team became `geared up' around him (the two Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn have been recruited from Benetton while he joined Ferrari) and there became no genuine opposition between drivers at Ferrari. He extraordinarily much continually had the main suitable kit and, enable's no longer forget approximately, the income of two unique attempt tracks. With few exceptions, for lots of his sixteen years in formulation One there quite wasn't lots opposition from the different communities. if your expertise of formulation One is going deeper than the Michael Schumacher years, you will bear in recommendations the competition between Fittipladi and Regazzoni, Hunt and Lauda, Piquet and Mansell and Senna and Prost. to signify that Michael Schumacher ' is a individual who's made F1 standard,' is to diminish value drives jointly with Mario Andretti, Niki Lauda, Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna ... and to signify he's 'the main stylish motive force,' might recommend you haven't any longer watched a number of the `greats' of racing, and that i'm no longer so particular attractiveness is in lots of circumstances linked with racing drivers. Calling him 'the king of formulation a million' might point out you're quite unfamiliar with lots of the real `greats' of formulation One, people who raced against teammates and raced while the automobiles have been lots harder to force and risk-free practices on the tracks became an afterthought. i'm particular it quite is not the respond you needed, so i'm going to be content textile with the two factors i'm getting for this missive.
2016-10-16 10:54:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a tough one for sure. He's one of my favorites, but it's hard to compare different eras and declare a "greatest". Alain Prost is one of my faves because of they way he could conserve the rubber on his car in an era of no re-fueling. I loved to watch Alesi in the rain. I loved to watch Stewart destroy the rubber on his car and control it through the corner on those giant slick tires. Statistically, he's won the most, led the most, etc.. You can't argue with that. To declare that he's the best at controlling the car compared to all drivers through history, well, he's the best at driving a normally aspirated V8 on these goofy treaded tires they've been using coupled with the very technically advanced aerodynamics and systems that they use. What could Alonso, Schumacher, or Raikkonen do in Jim Clark's car? What could he do in theirs? The question can't be answered because statistics aren't a true reflection of the talent involved. The greatest is the one you miss watching the most, the one who inspired you the most.
2006-10-26 13:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Sean B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Regardless of anybodys personal feelings about Shuey,he will go down in history as one of the LEGENDS of motorsport in general,much like that little Italian motorcycle racer Rossi.As someone above said it is pointless to compare drivers of different eras but it would be interesting to see all the LEGENDS driving exactly the same machinery at the same time.One can only dream/speculate.????.Your a champion Shuey and always will be.
2006-10-26 13:58:40 · answer #7 · answered by Mika K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You will probably get a lot of people answering this question, and I can assure you that there will be three types of responses. (1) those who disagree that he is the greatest because of his unsportsman-like behaviour, (2) those who mention the cold hard undisputable statistics to argue that he is indeed the greatest while acknowledging (1), and (3) those who mention the names of old timers such as Senna, Prost, Clark, Piquet, you name it...
I say, if YOU think he is the greatest, then he IS the greatest in your mind.
He's definitely the greatest in my book, and I will remember him as such.
2006-10-26 12:49:41 · answer #8 · answered by rockpool248 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
YES!!!!
Just like Dale Earnhardt Sr. is the greatest driver in history of NASCAR
2006-10-27 13:04:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Comparing drivers of different eras is not very meaningful. He was clearly the dominant driver of his time. But other drivers might have faired nearly as well if they were driving the dominant cars of their era.
2006-10-26 12:53:42 · answer #10 · answered by Dentata 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yup..he will be despite of what people thought of him..he might done things that is hard to forgive by some,but he has grown and have many experience in knowing what's good and wrong. his achivements is far greater than the bad things he done either on purpose or not.
"At the racetrack he is extremely focussed, extremely concentrated and totally geared to his goal. Totally in a fighting mood." we might just as well also be focus on our own goal and concentrate to succeed, just like he did..we can learn a lot of good things from someone..but don't learn the bad way of that person. in fact,we can learn what happens when we did bad things in our life and how people would react to it.
Learn Good things From others experience
2006-10-31 19:03:33 · answer #11 · answered by Aya 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋