“30 years ago the debut of the most successful driver in F1 history” – With this tweet, Scuderia Ferrari wanted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 debut, which took place on 25 August 1991 at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit at the wheel of a Jordan. A special message from the Italian team that, together with the German champion, rewrote almost all the records of this sport in the triumphal five-year period 2000-2004. However, the text posted by the Maranello team did not go unnoticed for a different reason by many web users.
In the post, the German champion is described as the “most successful F1 driver”. This is a definition that has accompanied him for many years, with 91 career victories and seven world titles won. Now, however, his records have been surpassed (in the case of victories) and equaled (as regards the world titles won) by Lewis Hamilton. The Englishman is on the hunt for the eighth world championship this year and can boast 99 GPs won in his palmares, eight more than the former Ferrari driver. Under the post published by the social media manager of Ferrari there was no shortage of aggressive responses from some Hamilton fans.
Whether it was a matter of distraction or a deliberate ‘provocation’ it is not known, but certainly the Schumacher-Hamilton dualism does not stop inflaming the minds of fans of this sport.
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1 year ago
Sadly MSC wins with Benetton in early 1994 were tainted due cheating with Traction control instigated by Tom Wilkinshaw
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He was not the cleanest racer and was disqualified in 1997 championship
Despite the above he was a great driver but not in the calibre of JYS Jim Clark and Senna
Like it or not LH is one of the cleanest Grand Prix racers today fantastic in the wet -
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1 year ago
Lewis Hamilton hasn’t driven for ferrari so why should they praise Lewis. Schumacher will always be better than Lewis because he didn’t have the best car only twice in his career. Lewis is a very good driver but statistics can be warped by circumstances of the time, example: I could drive for a team which had an amazingly quick car and the other teams were very slow cars and I could just collect titles in the process. I would never have to fight for it. Titles and race wins don’t necessarily mean that much. Senna had less but he was better than any of them.
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