AzShadow wrote:blizzard wrote:
He dominated in the rain, plus he didn´t sit in the best car until 2001.
Williams and McLaren were the best cars in the 90´s and still Schumacher took it to them and eventuelly managed to beat them. No other driver apart from Senna could have done that.
Sorry, but I'm not quite following you here. Schumacher clearly had the best car in '94 and '95 when he won the championships. And in 2000 Ferrari was the strongest car for most of the season, especially at the last crucial races.
Your post just made it sound like Schumacher won championships with way inferior cars while in fact he did have the best car with him just like pretty much almost every champion has had.
In 95 the Williams clearly was the best car, just ask Gerhard Berger how shocked he was after testing the B195 for the first time in the winter
In 94 Benetton had the best Chassis and Suspension, but an engine that was about 60-80 hp down on the Renault engine in the Williams.
In 2000 the McLaren was still marginally quicker than the Ferrari, but had more trouble with reliability.
Fact is Schumacher AND Senna were the only ones, who could win races in the 3rd best car. Not championships, but races.
In terms of championships all they needed was a car which was nearly as good or equally good to the best car to be wc. Senna 90 and Schumacher 95 stand out for me as an example, Prost´s Ferrari was as good as the McLaren Honda in 1990 and the Williams was better than the Benetton in 95.
If you don´t believe me, because you hate Schumacher than believe the facts. What happened in 96 after Schumacher left Benetton? Yeah right and who won 3 races, the same year in a c**p car that broke down, as soon as it left the garage? Right again
I don´t want to start another argument on Schumacher, I´m a bit sick and tired of this discussion, I heard it far too often. People like him or not, I know that he is the greatest of all time, together with Senna.