Massa crash

[ano]

For that and a few other reasons it's why I think drivers shouldn't try to emulate him but that's another thread I met a few fans who weren't for turning at this year's British GP so won't go down that road again haha, we've all got our favourites and it's like football teams, no point arguing.

Still I bet Badoer and Gene are pretty peeved. I can't believe one of them wasn't the 'number 3' driver with a contractual term stating that they'd race in the event of a main driver being unable to race through injury/suspension/etc.

 

[A T]

Shouldn't try to emulate this? :lol: :lol:

Records held by Michael Schumacher

* Most world titles: 7 (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)

* Most consecutive titles: 5 (2000-04)

* Most grand prix wins: 91

* Most wins in a single season: 13 (2004)

* Most consecutive wins in a single season: 7 (2004)

* Most wins at the same race: 8 (French GP)

* Most wins with one team: 72 (Ferrari)

* Most wins from pole: 40

* Most pole positions: 68

* Most front-row starts: 115

* Most podium finishes: 154

* Most second place finishes: 43

* Most points finishes: 190

* Most points scored: 1,369

* Most points in a single season: 148 (from a maximum of 180, in 2004)

* Most fastest laps: 76

* Most fastest laps in a season: 10 (from a maximum of 18, in 2004)

* Most races led: 141

* Most laps led: 5,108

* Furthest distance led in a season: 2,085 miles (2004)

* Fastest race-winning average speed: 153.843mph (2003 Italian GP)

* Most consecutive podiums: 19 (USA 2001 to Japan 2002)

* Most consecutive points finishes: 24 (Hungary 2001 to Malaysia 2003)

* Most consecutive seasons with a win: 15 (1992-2006)

* Most consecutive wins from pole (6)

* Most ‘clean sweeps’ (pole, win, fastest lap): 22

* Largest points gap between champion and runner-up: 67 (2002)

* Earliest title winner: 2002 (in July, with 6 of the 17 races remaining)

* Longest continuous spell with one team: 11 seasons (Ferrari, 1996-2006)

* Most races with same team: 162 (Ferrari)

* Most time between first and last race wins: 14 years, 1 month and 1 day

* Never outqualified by his team-mate in 1992, 1993 or 1994

* Only driver to have finished every race on the podium: 2002

 

[ano]

You missed one, he's also the only driver to have ever been disqualified from a World Championship.

Also you have the classics like Australia 1994 (turning in on Hill), Jerez 1997 (turning in on Villeneuve), Britain 1998 (failing to serve a stop-go but still winning) and Monaco 2006 (stopping on the track in the dying moments of qualifying to prevent final flying laps of his competitors being completed).

The fact is he never needed to do those things to be the best but he did anyway.

 

[A T]

Hee hee hee so he had a desire to win at all cost, that’s one of the things I loved about him! Failing to serve the stop go was a genius intrepratation of the rules (just like Brawn this year) and he thought about that while racing a formula 1 car.
There is another side to him that nodody ever speaks of, like through all the money and fame that he has had through out his career how he always made sure to keep his family out of the spotlight. His kids never attended an F1 race! Or how he donated 10 million dollars of his own money after the tsunami in Asia and he donated between 5 and 10 million dollars to the humanitarian foundation run by Bill Clinton

If you think he was the first person to cheat in the heat of the moment then you should look back at the history of any sport not just F1
Just a few things in F1 spring to mind, how about Senna? Considered to be one of the best drivers of all time yet tried to run Prost (his team mate) into the pit wall at 180mph in 88 and took Prost (not team mate anymore) out with a premeditated move going into the first corner in Suzuka in 1990 not to mention been accused of hindering other drivers in qualifying for the 85 Monaco grand prix so nobody could beat his time!
Lewis Hamilton in his young career already was part of a team disqualified for using stolen Ferrari technical information and only this year got away with a slap on the wrist for deliberately lying to stewards to gain A place!!
The truth is Schumacher spent so long at the top (longer than anybody ever) because of his desire to compete and his will to win (so much so that he raced hours after his mother died and still won), his work ethic was second to nobody and challengers came and went and with them came different situations and different results but no one could keep the pace with him. When you’re the greatest at anything there is always a group who will dislike you , but dislike him or not his record speaks for itself, he is the greatest

Go play with your pussycat doll Lewis
the king is back :party: :thumb:

 

[ano]

Meh, imo the most successful != the greatest.

 

[A T]

:wha:

 

[ano]

You think Carlsberg is the greatest beer?

 

[A T]

So let me get this right..... you're comparing Schumacher to Carlsberg :lol: :lol: bottom of the barrel stuff there :rofl: :rofl: :thumb:

 

[ano]

Could be worse, I could've said you think McDonalds is the greatest restaurant heh. I was just trying to get across the point that, for me, there is more to a great driver than statistics and success.

 

[A T]

Well it's official, he's not coming back
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/8/9731.html

 

[Aleman]

I admire Schuies record, both on and off the track, and even though I hated watching F1 when he was racing I would have loved to see him return for Valencia.

Having missed everything about this I just hope Massa does make a full recovery, and is soon back in an F1 car

 

[Wez]

Oh yeah!!!!


How is Massa ?

 

[A T]

Who's Massa? :lol:
Luca Badoer is taking the seat, i can't believe they are giving it to him but i suppose after i turned the gig down they had no choice

 

[A T]

I'd imagine after yesterdays performance Luca Badoer can say goodbye to F1 forever It was nice to finally get a win though :party: I was very surprised at the pace of the Force India, must be a huge boost for the team to have been without a doubt the best car on the day probably only beaten by the Ferraris KERS system

So who's gonna take the drive now? Lot of people seem to think Giancarlo Fisichella, Sebastien Bourdais has been mentioned but if i was to make the choice of what is available i'd go for Nelson Piquet Jr on the basis that he's young, hungry and no doubt wants to prove Renault wrong for dropping him.

 

[ano]

Fisi it is: sauce.

Can't say I'm too surprised, an Italian at Monza driving for Ferrari? Seems to make sense.

 

[A T]

Yep, hard believe Force India didn't get a big fat wad of cash though :lol:

 

[ano]

Read between the lines haha: "But after extensive discussions with Ferrari, Mallya has agreed to release Fisichella from his contract for a fat wad of cash, which was due to expire at the end of the season."