*GPG Exclusive* Schumacher suffers serious leg injury (again)

*Random article because I'm bored and was thinking while sitting on the toilet time*

2006: Michael Schumacher retires, by far and away the most successful Formula 1 driver ever
2010: Michael Schumacher returns, still by far and away the most successful Formula 1 driver ever
2012: Michael Schumacher retires, still by far and away the most successful Formula 1 driver ever

The bloke is a colossus. Ignoring the controversies in his career (as frankly I'm struggling to think of a genuinely true gentlemanly champion post the gentlemanly era), he swept everything before him. Despite not having the best car for much of his career, he won the drivers championship 7 times in his 17 full seasons in F1. Seven times. He won races in all but 15 of his 19 seasons. And when he won his final race, according to British law he could have been a grandfather. Even if, by some miracle, I was about to start my career now aged 33, Schumacher had already held aloft 4 drivers trophies, 4 constructors trophies and had won a mere 53 races in what is generally regarded as the highest level of motorsport. If, as many of us do, I was to have landed the dream seat in F1 now, I would have had to have won 39 races to have beaten Schumacher at the same stage in his career, as he won a mere 38 races after his 33rd birthday. To put it another way, irrespective of the controversy which dogged much of his career, the bloke was @#$%& awesome.

And so he retired at the end of 2012 after 19 seasons. 3 seasons after his comeback and old enough to have had a grandchild (a grandchild), having got on terms with his young, highly-thought-of compariet. The following season, against all expectation, his team stopped fannying about with systems which yielded little relative reward (passive-DRS) and actually produced a car capable of poles, wins and potentially championships. He must be kicking himself right now. Hard (hence the thread title).

We all wondered just how much Schumacher would raise his game should Mercedes give him a car befitting his reputation—many of us would have loved to have seen it too. Had he signed a 4 year contract at Mercedes rather than a 3, we may have found out...

I can't be the only one who wished Hamilton had stayed at McLaren and Schumacher had signed a small extension, can I?



Just for the sake of clarification, as much as I admired the guy, I wanted someone else to beat him every race of every year until his return in 2010, from which point he was the underdog among all of the champions we had and in the worst car of all of the champions. And he still managed to get to the top of the qualifying timesheets and probably would have won, had it not been for his Schumacherness in the previous race (though I still blame Senna to a large degree for that one).



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I don't think he would have Monaco from pole in the following race... Partly because the car broke down (again).

gav Wrote:
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> I can't be the only one who wished Hamilton had
> stayed at McLaren and Schumacher had signed a
> small extension, can I?


Nope, you're not.

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

honestly I believe that schuey retired, because he did not enjoy racing as much as he used to.On one hand, the tyres did not allow him to push to the limit, and schuey has always been pointing out that finding his limits is one of the things he most likes about f1. On the other hand, he maybe realized he started to make too many mistakes. In the pack or not, surronded by lame drivers (senna jr., maldonado and other kamikadzes) or not, he was just way too often in an accident. Furthermore, he could not contribute as much to the developing process as he would have liked to: restricted testing during the season, no testing at all throughout the season (apart from barcelona).



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IWE Wrote:
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> gav Wrote:
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> > I can't be the only one who wished Hamilton had
> > stayed at McLaren and Schumacher had signed a
> > small extension, can I?
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> Nope, you're not.


You most certainly are not.


" Perfection is not a gift ....... it comes with practice."

Member of R.S.C.T Group

It's bloody frustrating and annoying. Part of me wants him to come back out of retirement again and have a 3rd F1 career, since his 2nd one was so annoyingly close to being mindblowingly successful.

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I wonder if it would have finally been DC's year had he not left Red Bull at the wrong time...


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

danm Wrote:
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> I wonder if it would have finally been DC's year
> had he not left Red Bull at the wrong time...

Considering how DC fell away from Webber in 2008 I doubt it.

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X (@ed24f1)