Schumacher retiring

[MAJOR STONER]

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[BD]

At lots of “what if”….
Benetton was caught cheating at the end of1994 season by having illegal traction control. Therefore, if Benetton were caught cheating during the beginning of the season, perhaps Senna would still be alive, move on a take couple of those championship fromMS? During the Imola race, MS was tailing AS at an incredible speed, with an engine that was supposed to be almost 100 HP shy of Senna’s Renault…

If MS didn’t take out Damon Hill at the end of 1995 season…

If MS didn’t get all the protection as #1 driver, which gave him all those extra wins…

If Marlboro didn’t dropped McLaren, and switched all of the sponsorship money to Ferrari…

Would MS stay with Ferrari if they didn’t get Kimi… Supposedly, MS will only stay if they promised him #1 status, and Ferrari refused. After all, 12 years is a lot for a driver who spends most of his career unchallenged by his teammate. Even Senna, Prost, Mansell, Piquet, Lauda, etc. didn’t get that advantage.

At the end of the day, MS is still a 7 X champ.
10 or more years down the road, new F1 followers will only see what’s on the paper. 7 Times, or perhaps 8 times as a world champ is an amazing accomplishment – Even with all the help he received. Every one’s got dirty secrets. MS included.

I don’t really know, or care. I’m a Senna fan, it is a shame he left us so early. Unfortunately, J. Villneuve didn’t prevail after 1997, and Damon Hill was booted off Williams’ team. McLaren lost to Hakkanen because they couldn’t get their act together…

Life goes on with or without MS. Perhaps Alonso vs. Kimi will be a good thing to watch. Hopefully Honda will get their act together and give Button/Barichello a chance to do something…

 

[the nsxnut]

Yep, and many other teams, and driver champions, can be implicated, insinuated, implied, and inferred to have cheated or had irregularities in scoring and penalties. The playing field actually remains the same, throughout F1 history. With rare exception, most of the Great Ones have been arrogant and ruthless. It's a common denominator.

Schumacher is definitely one of the Great Ones, and the sport, on the whole, has benefitted from his participation.

The curious question remains, what will he be doing in '07? '08? DTM? family Kart track? Buying his own country? He certainly has not begun to fade as a driver...

 

[BD]

Yep, and many other teams, and driver champions, can be implicated, insinuated, implied, and inferred to have cheated or had irregularities in scoring and penalties. The playing field actually remains the same, throughout F1 history. With rare exception, most of the Great Ones have been arrogant and ruthless. It's a common denominator.

Schumacher is definitely one of the Great Ones, and the sport, on the whole, has benefitted from his participation.

The curious question remains, what will he be doing in '07? '08? DTM? family Kart track? Buying his own country? He certainly has not begun to fade as a driver...

I doubt MS will be driving regularly after this season. Unless he starts in F1 again. He will most likely be a team owner, or consultant or in PR.