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General Topics => Other Sports (Not Football) => Topic started by: desmartinson on June 16, 2014, 15:47:36 PM

Title: Shumacher
Post by: desmartinson on June 16, 2014, 15:47:36 PM

Great News, Michael out of coma, greatest formula 1 driver ever. :D.

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: cef on June 16, 2014, 17:36:13 PM

Very good news, fingers crossed that he makes a full recovery  :)

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: WordBird on June 16, 2014, 18:04:31 PM

I was so happy to read this today.
I have everything crossed for him.....he is arguably my greatest sporting hero (fighting it out with Ayrton Senna).
A total legend who does not deserve this to be his ending.

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: KKOB on June 16, 2014, 18:32:05 PM

I think you're all being a bit over-optimistic. Give it a few more months eh?

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: desmartinson on June 17, 2014, 07:24:10 AM

Pleased to hear this might have been nice KKOB. : :)

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: scorcher on June 17, 2014, 07:51:00 AM

I think he is being cautious with good reason.

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: teetee on June 17, 2014, 14:30:30 PM

Glad to hear he is out of the coma but as mentioned very early days as he is rumoured to still be in a very poorly state. As so little has been made public about his current condition he may be in a better condition than is thought, hopefully.

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: madmart on July 22, 2014, 20:04:08 PM

Glad to see he is out of his coma.

Greatest Formula 1 driver ever, no way.

How about Fangio, Ascari, Brabham, Moss, Clark, Surtees, Stewart, Rindt, Lauda, Prost, Senna?

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: Scunner on July 22, 2014, 20:28:06 PM

...Coulthard...Irvine...

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: grahamturner09 on July 22, 2014, 20:58:05 PM

Nigel Mansel

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: madmart on July 24, 2014, 19:08:37 PM

Apologies for my lack of reply or comment.

Here goes; it is impossible to compare drivers of different eras, different rules and point scoring systems. All I can try and do is list who I consider to be the greatest in any particular decade.

1950's Ascari, Fangio and Farina.

1960's Clark, Surtees and Brabham

1970's Stewart, Lauda and Peterson

1980's Villenueve (G), Prost and Mansell

1990's Berger, Senna and Hakkinen

2000's Alonso, Montoya and Hamilton

2010's (so far) Vettell, Alonso and Hulkenberg (the last named will surely be a great if a top team sign him!)

I am unable to include Schumacher for his flagrant disregard of a black flag in 1994, and his subsequent deliberate elimination of Damon Hill in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. I had given him the benefit of the doubt as to whether it was deliberate until the European Grand Prix of 1997 when he tried the same trick on Jacques Villeneuve.

Fortunately after that the governing body half saw sense and punished him, though not nearly severely enough in my opinion.

That's my opinion anyway.

Kind regards

Martin

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: echogirl1 on July 24, 2014, 21:52:38 PM

Sounds to me that a full recovery is very unlikely, he has a long journey ahead of him.  The chances that he will be a fully functioning person is very doubtful.  I am glad he gave a lot of pleasure to so many people in his career.

Title: Re: Shumacher
Post by: JohnF on July 25, 2014, 00:04:20 AM

Quote from: madmart on July 24, 2014, 19:08:37 PM

his subsequent deliberate elimination of Damon Hill in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. I had given him the benefit of the doubt as to whether it was deliberate until the European Grand Prix of 1997 when he tried the same trick on Jacques Villeneuve.

Using that criteria you'd then have to exclude Senna, did the same to Prost (who I would have included) twice. 

JF