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Yet he is not acknowledged as the best ever that the sport has seen. He has conquered the veterans as well as the rookies. He is the only driver to have won on each and every F1 racetrack in the world. He brought back all the lost glory for Ferrari when it was contemplating its very existence in F1. There has never even been a whiff of any off-the-field controversy for him. He has a loving and stable family life that is centered around his wife Corinne. He is one of the highest paid athletes in sport. Which was incidentally one of the longest standing records in sport, when he won the sixth he broke Juan Fangio's record of five championships. Michael Schumacher is on the verge of winning his Seventh Grand Prix championship.
Most observers choose to sit on the fence by pointing out that Senna and Schumacher did not race against each other enough to make it possible for a clear winner to emerge. The genius had his life cut short in the horrific crash in a race that Schumacher eventually went on to win. Brazil, senna is nothing short of God in his country. But the one man who seems to have spoiled it most for Schumacher is not even alive today - Ayrton Senna. Giles Villeneuve and Mika Hakinnen, damon Hill, nigel Mansell, niki Lauda, alain Prost, there have been many pretenders to the throne of best ever - Fangio.
The rest as they say is history. In Formula 1, soon afterwards he joined Jordan. His long time manager, where he was first introduced to Willi Weber, he then moved on to German Formula Three. He became German Junior Champion and finished runner-up in the Junior World Championship, in 1984 and 1985. . With Schumacher's trophies as "payment", a local businessman bought him a new kart and supported Schumacher, jurgen Dilk, when Schumacher was ten years old. Inspired by some men in the Schumachers' neighborhood who put a kart together themselves, his father gave him a pedal kart that he fixed up for him, when Schumacher was four years old. Germany, in Hurt-Hermulheim, to parents Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher, 1969, michael Schumacher was born January 3rd.
It has not only brought him more victories but has also ensured that his partner - Rubens Barichello finishes on the podium more often. The introduction and the subsequent rescinding of the traction system and the change in the point awarding system was supposed to slow down Schumacher. But he seems to have the ability to bend every new rule into his advantage. The authorities have in the past surreptitiously tried to quell his domination by bringing in a number of rule changes. The amount of money in F1 has increased by several thousand percentage points since the arrival of Schumacher. Almost an admission that he could no longer play catch-up, mika Hakinnen retired somewhat prematurely, his closest rival. His decade long domination has ensured that a bit of the excitement has got sucked out, while Schumacher has played a huge role in the globalization of Formula 1 racing.
His greatest strength is that he has the ability to motivate the entire team of Ferrari engineers and technicians to give him the fastest car possible. There is no one who understands a racecar better than him. He understands all the factors that go into a win, apart from the fact that he is a great racing driver. There is no one who comes close to him in wet-weather conditions. He has no qualms creating situations that are conducive to accidents if he has to get his way; he is easily the most ruthless and aggressive driver on the circuit. Michael Schumacher has a number of intrinsic strengths that makes him so formidable.
They would have been more successful, some of the older drivers who have now retired make claims that if they had a car that was similar to the one that Schumacher has. There have been allegations that he has engineered the team exits and entrances of his Ferrari teammates. There are rumors that he bought a seat for his brother Ralf on the BMW team. Barichello was asked by Ferrari to deliberately slow down to ensure that Schumacher wins, in the 2002 Austrian GP. Schumacher always gets the first choice car. Ferrari in its excitement to bend over backwards for him has created a few controversies.
These are reasons why people have not officially coronated him as the best ever in the sport but they pale when compared to the magnificence of his achievements.
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