Eddie Irvine said once in an interview "Michael was quite exceptional. Even when things were going really bad, he worked with Todt to hold the whole thing together, which was quite amazing.” “In my day there was, after [Ayrton] Senna’s death, only Michael. No one could drive a car like Michael Schumacher. That is what helped Ferrari at the time, because they could never point a finger at him. Rightly so because he was never to blame.” “When we were teammates I knew I was not as good as Michael. When I saw Michael drive I realised he could do things I could not do with the car. Mika [Häkkinen] was perhaps better than the rest of us but Michael was better than him too.” Of today’s drivers, Irvine said, “Vettel is a arrogant, well educated kid and damn good driver, but not on Michael’s level, Lewis [Hamilton] is a damn good driver, but everyone knew Michael was on a different level.” He said everyone knew. There was no question about it.
Michael Schumacher was the fastet man in GP racing. So much better than everyone else, just perfect racing driver,.. Clever, very stable, and super Fast... So much better then everyone today,.. 1992-2002 Schumacher version, was just monster!
I like the commentary. This just shows Schumachers perfectionism. It's the same Ayrton Senna had aswell. Schumacher was well ahead off the other driver but he just knew he could do better and pulled it off just like Senna did in Monaco! Sick sportsmen!
Smooth but capable of going over the edge, finding the limit, and bringing it back under control instantly. He knew how to work with the engineers and designers to get the most out of the car to suit his style. He had one lap pace as good as anyone but he also knew how to get the car to the end even when broken. Perhaps his greatest race was when he got stuck in 5th gear, a third of the way into the race, made two pitstops while stuck in 5th gear, and finished 2nd in the race -- staggering! I remember that race well and as soon as the gearbox failed I noticed because I'd been watching the gear indicator on the display and it was soon evident his gearbox was stuck. What did Schumacher do -- he immediately changed his lines to favor maintaining speed through corners instead of the typical late apex which pinches you off too much when you can't be in the desired gear. Smart, fast reflexes, and determined enough to do some shady things when needed -- there are gentlemen racers and winning racers but not both!
Ele e um piloto e com continue sendo um dos ótimos pilotos que a categoria teve e principalmente pelo seu pais parabéns valeu nota 💯 rumo ao tricampeonato mundial valeu rochedo poxa bicho que massa show de bola 👏🤣
Schumacher, Senna, Lauda, Piquet, Mansell and Prost. So many great drivers and always great rivalries. Hamilton only ever had a genuine rival in a car that could compete, and he lost that title. The rest of his career has been in a dominant Mercedes with a #2 driver. His records are great but he never faced the competition the others faced.
Despite being out-scored by Rosberg, Michael had a very good year this season I thought. His best results were four 5th places and a 4th place. To put that in perspective, Rosbergs best finishes were two 5th places and Massa only managed a bunch of 5th places as well. If Mercedes can claw back a couple of tenths over their rivals, Schumacher can fight for podiums and maybe add to that 91 :)
Those were the days, the cars and the drivers. Now they press a button to pass, save fuel, save tires and they look like Dyson vacuum cleaners on wheels...they need a major upgrade fast..
+Cyrus D As much as i agree with some points todays F1 cars are not slow. 360 kph at monza is not slow. To make them harder to drive, The engineers have had to give them less downforce. No traction control etc. Notice how top speeds are the same as what the older gen cars were but the lap times are really slow. Thats because they're still making 700-800 odd horsepower like the older cars were. 2017 rule changes will not make F1 better because the fans don't know what they want. F1 2014 and 15 is what they begged for when vettel was dominating and its what they got. Now they're complaining and when the next shake up happens they'll still complain. Most of F1 fans are not race car drivers and are not even above average drivers, thats why they do not appreciate it. Personally all Formula 1 needs is a few more teams to be competitive Mercedes, Ferrari , Redbull , Williams and perhaps Honda fighting for the championship would be pretty good. Sorry for the paragraph
+Cyrus D Plus the fans are assholes. They have the nerve to say someone like Kimi raikkonen is average. Plus people are still saying schumacher only won because he had the ferrari. Even after 1996, 97, 2005 and 2006. Even this year with vettel with his three wins. Sorry lol i'm venting because im angry about the fans of Formula one man...
I also would like to point out at 4:36 "what was that" ?!,Well that´s called aerodynamics, which it will give to an experience F1 driver,the necesary and absolutly confidence to take a chicane that literally becomes a corner at that speed. So it will be foolish to say: "that´s not the car, is the driver" Oh wait a minute someone did say that. I wonder what they say about his blinding performance last year. Is the car is not up for it?,he was not in the mood?!.
@TOXICTRACE ok, you're a schumacher-hater, aren't you?? montoya is talented, ok, I'm not telling the opposite, but to be a F1 champ and beat drivers such as schumacher or hakkinen you need the experience too, that's just my opinion..
@oatmealboy ...I think you got too much wheat at breakfast, don't repeat like a parrot what the commentartor says at 4:19 "this is a smoother run than last lap" ..not so smooth when you hear carefully at 5:06 ... "huuhh!! ... a little correction there .. I think he miss the apex there.." So in reallity, its not "One of the smoothest Suzuka laps ever." as you imply, its just a fast lap attained by and experienced driver who happend to enjoy the best intergalactic spaceship of those days.
@jkamwal2 Oh please how you can say such of thing. I´ll suguest you look at this clip Senna vs Prost Suzuka, this one show the year before the one you point out and, futhermore read the comment by Kriska.Hope this helps you to enlight your self.
@TOXICTRACE Yes ROKIE season JPM produce such of lap being his FIRST TIME AT SUZUKA. How someone can overlook that. But oh no "Michael Schumacher was the fastet man in GP racing. So much better than everyone else",Michael Schumacher is a genius!" Blah,blah,blah.The inavility to think from the vast mayority of Schumy fans is as such as to have brown their nouses.Actually someone have that as name. How ironic.THE TRUTH PREVAILS MONTOYEAH.
Erm ? "he´s so fast" mmm on a ferrari most dominant car in nearly decade and he was well stablished.Then we have MH, one of the best,who it sems pazzel for what he can see,is that doesn´t say something?.As for RB we all know about that contract so don´t be foolished to denied,Then RS,who at the time was already with BMW for over 2 or so years- comfortable,by then he should have the mayor of that engine or deliver but oh no he couldn´t do so in till alone come a Colombian boy and in his ROKIE...
@udv91 Here we go again calling me names or anybody who speaks the truth about the so called "the best,the greatest",Blah,blah.Do we forgot what he did in Monaco...parking,what was the reaction of F1 fans that day?,people call him BUFFONE.Now on my books tha´s far from being a "champ".Again do we forgot Austria 02.Should i go back in time?, let´s no ah!.(home work).So i´m a "hater". for saying the truth,NOT blindfolded by Schumaker press. MS IS A CHEATER ,MY OPINON WITH INTEGRITY OK.
Eddie Irvine said once in an interview
"Michael was quite exceptional. Even when things were going really bad, he worked with Todt to hold the whole thing together, which was quite amazing.”
“In my day there was, after [Ayrton] Senna’s death, only Michael. No one could drive a car like Michael Schumacher. That is what helped Ferrari at the time, because they could never point a finger at him. Rightly so because he was never to blame.”
“When we were teammates I knew I was not as good as Michael. When I saw Michael drive I realised he could do things I could not do with the car. Mika [Häkkinen] was perhaps better than the rest of us but Michael was better than him too.”
Of today’s drivers, Irvine said, “Vettel is a arrogant, well educated kid and damn good driver, but not on Michael’s level, Lewis [Hamilton] is a damn good driver, but everyone knew Michael was on a different level.”
He said everyone knew. There was no question about it.
Michael Schumacher was the fastet man in GP racing. So much better than everyone else, just perfect racing driver,.. Clever, very stable, and super Fast... So much better then everyone today,.. 1992-2002 Schumacher version, was just monster!
+ 2003 and 2004.
Iam not saying that he'sn't a monster, but it's sad how many people have forgotten about mika häkkinen
2w
I like the commentary. This just shows Schumachers perfectionism. It's the same Ayrton Senna had aswell.
Schumacher was well ahead off the other driver but he just knew he could do better and pulled it off just like Senna did in Monaco!
Sick sportsmen!
awesome lap..schumacher is a true great......
that was absolutely brilliant driving!
Smooth but capable of going over the edge, finding the limit, and bringing it back under control instantly. He knew how to work with the engineers and designers to get the most out of the car to suit his style. He had one lap pace as good as anyone but he also knew how to get the car to the end even when broken. Perhaps his greatest race was when he got stuck in 5th gear, a third of the way into the race, made two pitstops while stuck in 5th gear, and finished 2nd in the race -- staggering! I remember that race well and as soon as the gearbox failed I noticed because I'd been watching the gear indicator on the display and it was soon evident his gearbox was stuck. What did Schumacher do -- he immediately changed his lines to favor maintaining speed through corners instead of the typical late apex which pinches you off too much when you can't be in the desired gear. Smart, fast reflexes, and determined enough to do some shady things when needed -- there are gentlemen racers and winning racers but not both!
Ah yes, the shady moves. It was just as entertaining when he tested the edge of the rules as well.
SCHUMACHER FOREVER
Legend!
schumi the best!!!
awesome reaction from the commentators: "What! Unbelievable!"
Umiliante la differenza di velocità nella 130R.... 10 km/h!!!!!! Una leggenda al volante, enormemente superiore a tutto il resto. INCREDIBILE!!!
5:03 beautiful corrective steering at spoon, typical MSC driving
Ele e um piloto e com continue sendo um dos ótimos pilotos que a categoria teve e principalmente pelo seu pais parabéns valeu nota 💯 rumo ao tricampeonato mundial valeu rochedo poxa bicho que massa show de bola 👏🤣
Schumacher, Senna, Lauda, Piquet, Mansell and Prost. So many great drivers and always great rivalries.
Hamilton only ever had a genuine rival in a car that could compete, and he lost that title. The rest of his career has been in a dominant Mercedes with a #2 driver. His records are great but he never faced the competition the others faced.
suzuka master...
11 clicks faster than Montoya through 130R. Hell yeah. BTW: I miss Speedvision.
4:36, the car does not do that
that's a damn good driver eating a corner
the way he went through Degner was fuckin awesome!
Thank you algorithm.
5:37 "I'm not coming back. Ever."
We miss you, SPEEDVISION. Up your's, FOX.
grande chumajer
Despite being out-scored by Rosberg, Michael had a very good year this season I thought. His best results were four 5th places and a 4th place. To put that in perspective, Rosbergs best finishes were two 5th places and Massa only managed a bunch of 5th places as well. If Mercedes can claw back a couple of tenths over their rivals, Schumacher can fight for podiums and maybe add to that 91 :)
Incredible this comment is already 10 years old. Oh boy world has changed so much since then
Those were the days, the cars and the drivers. Now they press a button to pass, save fuel, save tires and they look like Dyson vacuum cleaners on wheels...they need a major upgrade fast..
+Cyrus D As much as i agree with some points todays F1 cars are not slow. 360 kph at monza is not slow. To make them harder to drive, The engineers have had to give them less downforce. No traction control etc.
Notice how top speeds are the same as what the older gen cars were but the lap times are really slow. Thats because they're still making 700-800 odd horsepower like the older cars were.
2017 rule changes will not make F1 better because the fans don't know what they want. F1 2014 and 15 is what they begged for when vettel was dominating and its what they got. Now they're complaining and when the next shake up happens they'll still complain.
Most of F1 fans are not race car drivers and are not even above average drivers, thats why they do not appreciate it.
Personally all Formula 1 needs is a few more teams to be competitive Mercedes, Ferrari , Redbull , Williams and perhaps Honda fighting for the championship would be pretty good.
Sorry for the paragraph
+Cyrus D Plus the fans are assholes. They have the nerve to say someone like Kimi raikkonen is average. Plus people are still saying schumacher only won because he had the ferrari. Even after 1996, 97, 2005 and 2006. Even this year with vettel with his three wins. Sorry lol i'm venting because im angry about the fans of Formula one man...
Damn these cars were so sexy then, they look like turds today.
how was fast the williams, now risk the barkrupt :'( , poor williams
Compare degner 1 of MSC to JPM.
The prior hardly slows down whereas JPM slows significantly before turnin.
This is 2003
Juan Pablo's first season 2001
@@windstudio788 I said 2003 due to a different graphic
I also would like to point out at 4:36 "what was that" ?!,Well that´s called aerodynamics, which it will give to an experience F1 driver,the necesary and absolutly confidence to take a chicane that literally becomes a corner at that speed. So it will be foolish to say: "that´s not the car, is the driver" Oh wait a minute someone did say that. I wonder what they say about his blinding performance last year. Is the car is not up for it?,he was not in the mood?!.
@TOXICTRACE ok, you're a schumacher-hater, aren't you?? montoya is talented, ok, I'm not telling the opposite, but to be a F1 champ and beat drivers such as schumacher or hakkinen you need the experience too, that's just my opinion..
@oatmealboy ...I think you got too much wheat at breakfast, don't repeat like a parrot what the commentartor says at 4:19 "this is a smoother run than last lap"
..not so smooth when you hear carefully at 5:06 ... "huuhh!! ... a little correction there .. I think he miss the apex there.."
So in reallity, its not "One of the smoothest Suzuka laps ever." as you imply, its just a fast lap attained by and experienced driver who happend to enjoy the best intergalactic spaceship of those days.
@jkamwal2 Oh please how you can say such of thing. I´ll suguest you look at this clip Senna vs Prost Suzuka, this one show the year before the one you point out and, futhermore read the comment by Kriska.Hope this helps you to enlight your self.
@TOXICTRACE Yes ROKIE season JPM produce such of lap being his FIRST TIME AT SUZUKA. How someone can overlook that. But oh no "Michael Schumacher was the fastet man in GP racing. So much better than everyone else",Michael Schumacher is a genius!" Blah,blah,blah.The inavility to think from the vast mayority of Schumy fans is as such as to have brown their nouses.Actually someone have that as name. How ironic.THE TRUTH PREVAILS MONTOYEAH.
Erm ? "he´s so fast" mmm on a ferrari most dominant car in nearly decade and he was well stablished.Then we have MH, one of the best,who it sems pazzel for what he can see,is that doesn´t say something?.As for RB we all know about that contract so don´t be foolished to denied,Then RS,who at the time was already with BMW for over 2 or so years- comfortable,by then he should have the mayor of that engine or deliver but oh no he couldn´t do so in till alone come a Colombian boy and in his ROKIE...
@udv91 Here we go again calling me names or anybody who speaks the truth about the so called "the best,the greatest",Blah,blah.Do we forgot what he did in Monaco...parking,what was the reaction of F1 fans that day?,people call him BUFFONE.Now on my books tha´s far from being a "champ".Again do we forgot Austria 02.Should i go back in time?, let´s no ah!.(home work).So i´m a "hater". for saying the truth,NOT blindfolded by Schumaker press. MS IS A CHEATER ,MY OPINON WITH INTEGRITY OK.