Ayrton senna about michael schumacher biography

Four years later in Australia, Schumacher took out Damon Hill, winning his first world championship when he escaped sanction for the manoeuvre. Although Senna felt he had been robbed, others, including longtime F1 journalist Nigel Roebuck of Motor Sport Magazine, believed the Brazilian was in the wrong in , as well as the following year.

Schumacher was given the benefit of the doubt in but not the second time, in His willingness to say exactly what was on his mind was very refreshing, certainly compared to modern F1 drivers, and even to his contemporary, the more sombre and calculating Prost. The Brazilian champion famously displayed these qualities in a very self-serving interview with three-time world champion Jackie Stewart, in which he discussed the and incidents with Prost.

Schumacher, meanwhile, was generally more reserved than Senna in interviews. In the end, both men will deservedly be remembered as great racing drivers and flawed champions…or perhaps tragic heroes. Anirban Aly Mandal is an F1 writer at The SportsRush, with over articles under his belt, Anirban's love for F1 started when he discovered a copy of F1 on his computer.

However, Anirban's expertise goes beyond just writing - he has also written several academic papers focused on the domain of motorsports and the law. His passion for the sport is so immense that he aspires to work as a legal advisor in the most prestigious racing series in the world someday. When it comes to Formula 1, Anirban finds great pleasure in re-watching classic races and idolizes the likes of Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, and Sebastian Vettel.

His top picks include Brazil '91, Silverstone '92, and Germany ' Schumacher, Ferrari and Bridgestone worked together to make this happen, and it was a vital ingredient for their success, as well as their difficulties in I respect that other people do not feel the same way. Dasman 30th May , Many good points in this topic — I grew up watching Senna and Schumacher.

Schumacher was the one who really got me excited about F1, namely because of his raw speed in cars his team mates could hardly get into the top 10 with, aswell as his amazing ability to strategise during the race. Senna was a great racer, but Schumi was a better package overall, in my book. Also think about the fact that when Senna died, he was battling to beat Schumacher, wheras Schumacher was getting better and better.

This was why Senna felt the need to try and intimidate Schumi on and off the track. As far as contoversy goes, both drivers had planty of it, but I believe because of their hunger to win. People have tended to forget what Senna got up to, maybe because time has passed by.

Ayrton senna about michael schumacher biography

Perhaps the same will be true of Schumacher, but I do think sometimes he gets a lot of stick simply because of his seemingly arrogant personality…not that I think he is. Diacho 30th May , It was never my responsibility. And that you should see in a video. And I thought about not coming to Australia, and then not racing anymore. Fireblade 30th May , First of all,it is very difficult to compare them to each other as both of them reached their peak in a different area in terms of of regulations,engine specifications and technology know-how etc.!

I would go for Schumacher bec. Same goes for the fact that has extensively developed the car. Schumacher brought the fame,victories and prestige back to the Italy based team!!! McLaren was already a leading team since …before Ayrton Senna even arrived…and Alain Prost,Niki Lauda helped McLaren alot in the development of the car…Meaning that Senna got a ready made championship winning car.

Schumacher did all this by himself. There is also another clear question: Did Senna win the championship with another time than McLaren? Some people disagree. Nigel Mansell claimed Senna brake-tested him at Montreal in — when Mansell repaid the favour at Adelaide Senna piled into the back of him. On another occasion at Monaco after setting the pole position time he suffered a car failure and rather than pull up, drove on, coating the racing line in oil.

Keith is right about the incidents at Suzuka. In Senna said that if Prost and himself went into the first corner side by side he would not lift. It was the single most stupidly dangerous thing I have seen on a racetrack. He is responsible for the ridiculous one move rule we now have. We had the Schuey chop at the start of every race. We had the ramming of Hill and Villeneuve at the conclusion of two world championships.

We have the despicable move putting Hakkinen on the grass at mph at Spa. He put Alonso on the grass on the Hangar straight at Silverstone etc etc etc. Senna started the decline in driver behaviour but Schumacher took it to a whole new level. Fortunately it looks like the new generation have chosen to ignore his bad example. There is one other factor to consider.

Someone mentioned before about the number of start to finish wins by Senna and generally Senna drove the car himself. How often did we see Ross find him a piece of track no-one else wanted whre he could drive fast on his own and take the lead at a pit stop? One year at Imola he went from 12th to 2nd but only overtook one car. Instead of disputing each position on the same piece of tarmac as his opponent he frequently was given a free piece of road by Brawn and a lap time target to achieve to ensure he won.

Sorry for the confusion. You know, english is not my native tongue :. Dorian 30th May , A debate that I believe will never find an ending. I do firmly agree with a number of the aforementioned comments regarding the fact that we simply cannot compare eras. Nowadays and I believe to the credit of modern F1 drivers , they not only have to drive their cars which are by far quicker and more technologically advanced than earlier versions but they also have to MULTITASK even just to get the car off the line!!

As such I believe that potentially a number of earlier great drivers might struggle in the modern format. A great modern driver now must be able to do both. Drive and Think!!! My point was not to keep score as to who did what, but rather to state that I feel that both had similar motivation for whatever they did. They had a massive hunger to win.

That said, a number of the things you list are either highly debatable, or only protested by the anti-Schumi brigade. Since you asked, here are my views on these incidents:. Hill 94 — this has been debated to death, IMO a racing incident. Hill dived in, Schumi closed the door. Notice it was Schumi who was punted off the track in that one.

Stewards verdict — racing incident. He should have turned in earlier and he would have been rammed from behind, similar to Jenson and DC earlier this year. Barge boards — huh? Wider tires — again, huh? Eddie Irvine, Rubens — MS simply drove the wheels off these 2 consistantly. Yes, they did beat him on occasion, but any suggestion that MS had a superior car is simply nonsense.

Ferrari chose to support the driver most likely to win consistantly. So yes he was number one, but for the most part they had similar equipment. Crashing at rascasse you say? Tight corner, final lap, up on your previous time. Win, win? Refuelling FIA approved the removal of the filters in question. Ignoring black flag — Team decision while they protested to the stewards.

Maybe could have taken the decision himself to retire. This one had me chortling as it happened. So in reality, what do you have in your list that is credible? The rest is all debatable or nothing to do with him at all. MS never felt the need to defend his tactics to you or I. He raced to win Grand Prix, not win popularity contests, not unlike Senna.

Both brilliant drivers, but Schumi gets my vote…. Fist at all Dasman Senna won against Schumacher when they drive one against the other. Senna has more pole and more victories. Senna race against champions: Lauda, Prost, Piquet, Rosberg. And good pilots as the Lion Niguel Mansell. Schumacher is recogniezed as the most dirty driver and more punished in the all history of the F1.

In , for example the F1A [finally! Same without any suspension in , just for named few of the list, and the last was in Monaco And he never achieve epic race and never beat with inferior car 2 times World Champion as Senna did. Senna in less than 21 laps in his first test in F1, beat the record of the circuit [Donigton Park with the 4th best team, Williams-Ford].

One thing is be a aggressive but sportman and other is be a dirty driver as Schumacer is. And finaly as I said previously, pilots of F1 since to the modern era select in a very complicated survey designed by Autsoport Senna was elected as The Greatest of all The Times. And few weeks ago, was selected by 12 of 22 pilots of the actual F1 [Planetf1] as The Best.

In my opinion, the pilots of F1 known more the F1 than us, the fans. Thank you, Dasman, for taking the time to answer all the points I raised. I do have different opinions on each, but this is not the place to go on about it, right? The way I see it you have twenty odd drivers driving F1 cars. In that bunch, you will probably, at a given time, get two or three drivers who will go above and beyond what is necessary to win.

Its that mindset, that second is the first of the losers. That drive, that passion to win, that is all consuming, takes over them, and becomes addictive. If I was in their shoes, I would do the same thing. I see it in Fernando, I see it in Lewis and glimmers of it in Massa too. That desire to be first, that desire to succeed, that is almost unbearable for them.

What more do you want? That is motor racing, that is Formula One. Look at Fuji last year, the battle between Kubica and Massa. Tell me, can one person reply and tell me, what was wrong with that? It was the most exciting, heartstopping finish to a race we have seen in years. Ayrton Senna V Schumacher! Schumacher was undoubtedly a fast and consistent driver.

Ayrton was certainly poetry in motion,epecially in that incredible performance he displayed at Donington. That to me marked him out as a truly great driver. Steven Roy 31st May , Ramming people onto the grass is not grand prix racing. There was nothing exciting about Schumacher putting Hakkinen on the grass at Spa. That was stupidly dangerous and Schumacher should have received a long ban for it.

Villeneuve and Arnoux at Dijon was a little over the top but they respected each other enough not to put each other off the tarmac. That was exciting because although the performance of the cars was very different they were evenly matched. Schumacher was beaten as soon as Hakkinen arrived on his tail but instead of respecting him and the sport and leave him space Schumacher chose to ram him off the road.

Any moron can ram someone off the road it takes no ability whatever and no class. Sri 1st June , What would you do, would you wave your opponent by? Schumacher drew much flak for his driving, cos he was a German plus not running anything remotely British. British control most of F1 media. You add 1 and another to get 2. It is that simple. Ayrton was not given much heat over the same and much much more, as he was driving a….

Well you guys make up your own mind. Stewards went out of their way to penalise him at Spa, which i do not think was fair. Hill was blatantly being favoured by the establishment. Like Hamilton is now, by Bernie how else did he escape punishment a couple of times last year??? LOL, makes me approve of these blokes all the more. Why do you think they categorised it as a racing incient.

He was not going to run onto gravel and let Villeneuve past easy, was he? Well he tried and i must say that it went pear shaped and can i add made him look silly. Keith Collantine keithcollantine 1st June , But Senna and Schumacher both did things at Suzuka in and Spa in that needlessly put the lives of their competitors at risk. This is what Steven and many other people object to.

Your argument seems a bit contradictory. Neither of which I believe. If you allow drivers to crash into each other to settle championships then F1 will quickly become a farce, which is no doubt why Mosley has said Schumacher would not have been able to win a championship in that way today. Steven Roy 1st June , Sri, Imagine a football match if every time someone went past an opponent he was rugby takled to the deck.

What Schumacher in particular did was not motor racing. A driver has the right to make passing him difficult bu he cannot weave around and push an opponent on to the grass. If an opponent gets alongside you have to allow them racing room. Pre-Scumacher that was something that no-one would ever have questioned. I love the idea that Schumacher fans think there is a conspiracy to help any other driver.

Bernie told him to shut up and go to bed and in the morning he would be a Benetton driver. From that moment on with the exception of a couple of incidents in 94 Max and Bernie did everything they could to help him. At Adelaide Damon Hill came round a corner and saw Schumacher offline. It can only be a racing incident if both cars are racing.

I love the idea that the FIA are biased in favour of Hamilton. Frankly that is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard anyone say about motor racing. Did you watch last season? McLaren were put through the wringer for doing something every other team on the grid has done since racing started. Two or three races ago Massa set the pole position on a lap where yellow flags were being waved.

Does that suggest pro-Lewis bias. McLaren acquired the sole rights to the J-damper design. They had the legal rights to this technology for the next 10 or 20 years. Renault stole the design and in common with several other teams including Ferrari are running it. McLaren are not allowed to run what they learned from the Ferrari dossier but everyone else is allowed to run technology stolen from them by Renault and given to Ferrari byt the FIA read the transcripts of the Renault hearing despite McLaren having the sole legal rights to it.

And a final point I am Scottish and British by protest. Lewis Hamilton being English is not an advantage from my perspective. Whatever else is said is in my opinion a tad too hypocratic. However, it is very questionable when a man tries to jump someone in a corner, when he knows that the other chap is potentially out with damage. No disrespect meant, but everyone makes a mistake.

Why would i defend Schumacher? Am i his fan? Yes, but that by itself is no reason for me to speak for him. Do i defend his actions in Monaco, ? No, but i sure do wonder what happened? He won five world championships with the team and countless pole positions and wins before Lewis Hamilton broke his record. Also Read: Roger Federer names one F1 legend from whom he got really inspired.

A dream come true at all costs for the seven times world champion. The then year-old Schumacher felt amazed watching Senna drive past opponents with speed and driving sense while driving karts. In the season, he equalized with Senna on the total number of victories in a season as well. The Regenmeister was proud of the comparison with his idol equalling his season victories.