Michael Schumacher

The Vettel thread surprised me as such that when I searched for a Schumacher thread, I could not find one. So I propose this thread for Schumacher because regardless of your opinion whether his return is succesful or not, I think we can all agree that there's always something to talk about whether he's had a good or bad race.
Historical Discussion may be allowed on the thread as long as it's on topic.
Enjoy!

 

[Tacitus]

 

[Tacitus]

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[ExtremeNinja]

Mamma, just killed a cat.... meeeiiiioooowwwwwwaaaawwwwwaaaaaahhhh

 

[Olivier]

FIA has blocked the video, damn!

 

[Bill Boddy]

I can't help but think that our musical society made a better job of BoRap.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Michael Schumacher will be racing in his 300th race at Spa on the 2nd of September. Only the second man to have ever broken into the 300's (Rubens is the other one… but you knew that) I have never been a big fan of Schumy but I have to say big respect to him for such a mile stone. Fingers crossed he can have a good race.

 

[Viscount]

Coincidentally Rubens 300th GP was at Spa as well.

 

[teabagyokel]

No it wasn't.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Schumacher to win!

 

[Mephistopheles]

What is it with F1 drivers and bloody Queen songs???????

 

[Fenderman]

Spa 2010 was recorded as Ruben's 300th GP. He clocked up 322 starts out of 326 entries. The disputed 300th GP seems to be around the issue of the 1994 Imola GP.

Williams' website says here http://www.williamsf1.com/news/view/1513 :

"Technically, this weekend’s race is Rubens’ 301st appearance at a grand prix, but he doesn’t include the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in his count. He didn’t qualify at Imola ’94 because he fractured his arm and broke his nose in a hefty accident during Friday practice."​

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Many people in the run up to Hungary 2010 said he should be celebrating his 300th there but considering thhe events at Imola in '94 I'm not surprised he wants to place that weekend further back in his mind.

Anyway, back to Michael ... I too hope he has a race worthy of celebration, if only for the nice addition to the history books.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Which takes us back to when exactly does a race start and I don't want to get into that one again..

 

[teabagyokel]

But there were 2 no-starts in 2002 as well, so his 300th GP start was in Singapore that year, where he finished 6th and his 300th entry was at Hungary. Schumacher's no start at the 1996 French Grand Prix means his 300th GP start will be in Monza, but his 300th entry will actually be at Spa.

 

[Fenderman]

So who is going to do the mammoth task of listing every entry against every start to give us the definitive stat's?
Whomsoever that may be will surely deserve a special Clip award. Oh, and it won't be me

 

[teabagyokel]

Fenderman - http://www.statsf1.com/en/michael-schumacher/engagement.aspx
http://www.statsf1.com/en/michael-schumacher/grand-prix.aspx

 

[Fenderman]

That stuffs that idea then. So that's where you go! Funny how I seem to have missed that site. That site is Biblical ... think I'll delete a few bookmarks.

 

[Tacitus]

http://ozformula.com/schumacher-has-turned-the-tides-at-mercedes-in-2012/

 

[RasputinLives]

Nice of Schumi to come straight out and apologise to Vergne I think. Obviously just couldn't slow the car down

 

[sushifiesta]

I'm interested to hear whether there was some sort of car problem going on, or maybe simply a lack of tyre/brake temperature. If there wasn't it was a very clumsy mistake, which is a shame.

It was very gentlemanly between him and Vergne wasn't it. However, I would argue that the only current drivers that would consider having an argument with Schumacher are Alonso and Raikkonen, who have fought tooth and nail for championships with him in the past. For everyone else I think Schumacher is too much of an F1 icon to consider getting on the wrong side of him.

 

[RasputinLives]

Schumie said he was having problems slowing it down in the corners before after restart so it seems to suggest it was. The "what happened there?" message on the radio seems to suggest Merc had no clue on the pit wall though.