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World of Michael Schumacher
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Michael Schumacher born January 3rd
, 1969
is a German Formula One racing driver for the
Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year
spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-timeWorld Champion and is widely regarded as one
of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. He holds
many of the formula's driver records, including
most championships, race victories, fastest laps,
pole positions, points scored and most races
won in a single season – 13 in 2004. In 2002 he
became the only driver in Formula One history
to finish in the top three in every race of a
season and then also broke the record for most
consecutive podium finishes. According to the
official Formula One website he is "statistically
the greatest driver the sport has ever seen".
After beginning with karting,
Schumacher won German drivers'
championships in Formula König and Formula
Three (3) before joining Mercedes in the World
Sportscar Championship. After one Mercedes-
funded race for the Jordan Formula One team
Schumacher signed as a driver for the Benetton
Formula One team in 1991. After winning
consecutive championships with Benetton in
1994/5, Schumacher moved to Ferrari in 1996
and won another five consecutive drivers' titles
with them from 2000 – 2004. Schumacher retired
from Formula One driving in 2006 staying with
Ferrari as an advisor. Schumacher agreed to
return for Ferrari part-way through 2009, as
cover for the badly injured Felipe Massa, but
was prevented by a neck injury.
He later signed a 3-year contract to drive for
the new Mercedes GP team starting in 2010.
His career has not been without
controversy, including being twice involved in
collisions in the final race of a season that
determined the outcome of the world
championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in
Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in 1997
in Jerez.
Off the track Schumacher is an
ambassador for UNESCO and a spokesman for
driver safety. He has been involved in
numerous humanitarian efforts throughout his
life and donated tens of millions of dollars to
charity. Michael and his younger brother Ralf
Schumacher are the only brothers to win races
in Formula One, and they were the first
brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race,
in Montreal in 2001, and there again (in
switched order) in 2003.
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There is no more demoralising outcome
to any sporting event than to come fourth. Just
to miss out on a podium spot and to see others
picking up the trophies and basking in the
limelight. And yet the fourth-place finish in Sao
Paolo that marked the end of the most
successful racing career ever in Formula One
did not actually come as a disappointment for
Michael Schumacher. Ever the realist, he had
already written off the tantalising prospect of an
eighth world title well before the grand finale of
2006. And ever the perfectionist too, he gave
his 250th and last Grand Prix everything he had
got, despite all the setbacks as the race
progressed. For his own personal pride, for his
team and for the sport he loves. Schumi‟s last
demonstration of his status as the best racing
driver in the world and the champion of the
millennium.
The man who made Formula One into
‟Formula Own‟ is adaptable in every sense of
the word. It is Michael Schumacher‟s keen
perception and apparently intuitive ability to
adapt instantly to changing conditions that set
him apart from every other racing driver of his
generation. Add to that his ability behind the
wheel, his indomitable will, his grasp of
technical issues plus his talent for motivating
the whole team and you have the most complete
four-wheeled maestro ever to have graced
Grand Prix racing. He has effectively redefined
what it means to be a professional driver. His
close rival Damon Hill, whom he first came upagainst in the championship battle
of 1994, was later to draw a parallel that was
latched onto by many commentators: "If I ever
need a heart bypass, then I hope I get the
Schumacher of surgery to perform the
operation, because you know you can rely on
someone like him." The legendary ‟Schumi
factor‟ was the sum of many individual talents.
He himself would never claim to be up on a
pedestal with Fangio or Senna, but he is
certainly on their level, if not one step higher.
Credit where credit is due. Niki Lauda
too is quick to pay his respects: "In the broader
picture of Michael Schumacher‟s career, it
doesn‟t make a great deal of difference whether
he adds another title to his tally." Even the
traditionally hostile British media honoured the
German for the manner of his departure and for
allowing deeds to speak louder than words.
Schumacher‟s fourth place in the Brazilian GP
may not stand out from a set of statistics that is
bulging with records - and yet it must count as
one of his greatest personal triumphs. Manager
Willi Weber, who is not normally known for
displays of emotion, said without any sense of
exaggeration: "Michael showed that he is the
greatest. He stole the show today. And he did
that without even winning the race."
The grandstand finish to his final
performance in autumn 2006 once again made
clear why Schumi was able to achieve what he
did in his career. He was writing his own
epilogue and retiring with dignity. Following
this dramatic final race, many experts wereasking whether it was possible that a man like
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him could quit after putting in such a fabulous
250th performance.
Apparently it was. In a relaxed mood,
the centre of attention goes on record as saying
that he is not sad about retiring: "Otherwise I
wouldn‟t have made the decision I did." He had
already known for some time that, following a
long holiday, he would be back in harness
doing a different job for Ferrari.
In everything he does, Michael
Schumacher‟s consistent obsession has been the
desire to avoid error. The only limiting factor
he has ever recognised has been ambition itself.
The few mistakes he has made were therefore
all the more painful. But it is only the
contradictions that complete the Schumacher
myth. Seen through the soft focus of history,
even the heavy-handed tactics against Damon
Hill and Jacques Villeneuve at Adelaide in1994 and Jerez in 1997 no longer seem quite so
brutal.
"I am not a legend," asserts the record
F1 title holder defensively. "I‟m just someone
who happens to be good at doing something he
enjoys." Figures over and above actual lap
times are of little interest to him: "Snatching a
victory out of a hopeless situation always gives
more satisfaction than any set of statistics could
ever do."
-1995 Benetton Renault-
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winning the latter.
In 1989, Schumacher signed with
“Willi Weber's” WTS Formula Three team.
Funded by Weber, he competed in the German
Formula 3 series, winning the title in 1990. He
won also the Macau Grand Prix. At the end of
1990, along with his Formula 3 rivals” Heinz-
Harald Frentzen” and “Karl wendlinger”, he
joined the Mercedes junior racing programme in
the World Sports-Prototype Championship.
This was unusual for a young driver: most of
Schumacher's contemporaries would compete in
Formula 3000 on the way to Formula One. In
the 1990 World Sportscar Championship
season, Schumacher won the season finale at
the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in a
Sauber – Mercedes C11, and finished fifth in the
drivers' championship despite only driving in 3
of the 9 races. He continued with the team inthe 1991 World Sportscar Championship
season, winning again at the final race of the
season at Autopolis in Japan with a Sauber –
Mercedes-Benz C291, leading to a ninth place
finish in the drivers championship. He also
competed at Le Mans during that season,
finishing 5th in a car shared with “Karl
Wendlinger” and “Fritz Kreutzpointner”. In
1991, he competed in one race in the Japanese
Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second.
The Beginning
When Schumacher was four, his father
modified his pedal kart by adding a small
motorcycle engine. When Schumacher crashed
it into a lamp post in Kerpen, his parents took
him to the karting track at Kerpen-Horrem,
where he became the youngest member of the
karting club. His father soon built him a kart
from discarded parts and at the age of six
Schumacher won his first club championship.
To support his son's racing, Rolf Schumacher
took on a second job renting and repairing
karts, while his wife worked at the track's
canteen. Nevertheless, when Schumacher
needed a new engine costing 800 DM, his
parents were unable to afford it; Michael was
able to continue racing with support from local
businessmen.
Regulations in Germany require a
driver to be at least 14 years old to obtain a kart
license. To get around this, Schumacher
obtained a license in Luxembourg at the age of
12.
In 1983, he obtained his German
license, a year after he won the German Junior
Kart Championship. From 1984 on,
Schumacher won many German and European
kart championships. He joined Eurokart dealer
Adolf Neubert in 1985 and by 1987 he was the
German and European kart champion, then he
quit school and began working as a mechanic.
In 1988 he made his first step into single-seat
car racing by participating in the GermanFormula Ford and Formula Köni series,
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Formula One Career
Schumacher made his Formula One
debut with the Jordan-Ford team at the 1991
Belgian Grand Prix, driving car number 32 as
a replacement for the imprisoned “Bertrand
Gachot”. Schumacher, still a contracted
Mercedes driver, was signed by “Eddie
Jordan” after Mercedes paid Jordan $150,000
for his debut. The week before the race,
Schumacher impressed Jordan designer “Gary
Anderson” and team manager “Trevor Foster”
during a test drive at Silverstone. His manager
“Willi Weber” assured Jordan that
Schumacher knew the challenging Spa track
well, although in fact he had only seen it as a
spectator. During the race weekend, team-
mate “Andrea de Cesaris” was meant to show
Schumacher the circuit but was held up with
contract negotiations.Schumacher then learned the track on
his own, by cycling around the track on a fold-
up bike he had brought with him. He
impressed the paddock by qualifying seventh
in this race. This matched the team's season-
best grid position, and out-qualified 11-year
veteran de Cesaris. Motorsport journalist “Joe
Saward” reported that after qualifying "clumps
of German journalists were talking about 'the
best talent since “Stefan Bellof”. Schumacher
retired on the first lap of the race with clutch
problems.
After his debut, and despite Jordan's
signed agreement in principle with
Schumacher's Mercedes management for the
remainder of the season, Schumacher was signed
by Benetton-Ford for the following race. Jordan
applied for an injunction in the UK courts to
prevent Schumacher driving for Benetton, but
lost the case as they had not yet signed a contract.
Schumacher finished the 1991 season with four
points out of six races. His best finish was fifth in
his second race, the Italian Grand Prix, in which
he finished ahead of his team-mate and three-
time World Champion “Nelson Piquet”.
At the start of the 1992 season the Sauber
team, planning their Formula One debut withMercedes backing for the following year,
invoked a clause in Schumacher's contract which
stated that if Mercedes entered Formula One,
Schumacher would drive for them. It was
eventually agreed that Schumacher would stay
with Benetton.
In the "conventional" Benetton B192
Schumacher took his place on the podium for the
first time, finishing third in the Mexican Grand
Prix. He went on to take his first victory at the
Belgian Grand Prix, in a wet race at the Spa-
Francorchamps circuit, which by 2003 he would
call "far and away my favourite track". He
finished third in the Drivers' Championship in
1992 with 53 points, three points behind runner-
up Patrese.
The Williams of “Damon Hill” and
“Alain Prost” also dominated the 1993 season.
Schumacher won one race, the Portuguese Grand
Prix where he beat Prost, and had nine podium
finishes.
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LIST OF AWARDS MICHAEL SCHUMACHER(1992-2010)
1992: ADAC Motorsports Personality of the Year
1993: Golden Steering Wheel Award (Bild am Sonntag newspaper)
1993: Bambi
1994: AvD Sports Award
1994: Golden 1 (ARD Sports Gala)
1995: German Sports Personality of the Year
1995: Golden Camera Award (Hörzu magazine)
1995: Golden 1
1997: Silver Laurel Award
1997: Golden Lion Award(RTL)
2001: World Sport Award
2001: Freedom of the City of Modena
2001: European Sports Personality of the Year
2001: 'Champion of Champions' (L'Equipe)
2002: World Sports Personality of the Year
2002: 'Champion of Sports' (Unesco)
2002: European Sports Personality of the Year
2003: Honorary Ambassador for the Republic of San Marino
2003: European Sports Personality of the Year
2003: 'Champion of Champions' (L'Equipe)
2004: World Sports Personality of the Year
2004: German Sports Personality of the Year
2004: 'Champion of Champions' (L'Equipe)
2004: Sports Personality of the Century (ZDF)
2006: Freedom of the City of Maranello
2007: Prince of Asturias Award for Sport
2007: German TV Prize in the Special Awards Category
2010: Knighthood in the Legion of Honour
2010: GQ Sportsman of the Year
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