Who thinks Schumacher finally should retire?

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Originally Posted by The Black Knight

Yes, but I'll always remember the 1999 championship as the Championship nobody wanted to win. All the contenders seemed to be making all the necessary mistakes required just at the right moment to make sure they didn't wrap it up.

It was a missed opportunity for MS, much like 97 and 98. Frightening really if you think about it, had luck favored him a little more those years we could be calling him a 10 time WDC and even then there would still be idiots claiming that he was never a great driver and it was all down to the car. Go figure!

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Yep I have always looked at those years and wondered the same, I think along with senna, he is up there to have had the best of combination of what a competitive racing driver should have to be successful, still in awe of the fact that he got the best qualifying time in Monaco at 43 in such a competitive season.

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MS to win canada :up:

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Originally Posted by F1boat

I don't think that he is currently the best driver in F1, but I do think that Mercedes are highly unprofessional when preparing his car, to the point that conspiracy theories almost look credible.

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No, they don't look credible.

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Originally Posted by F1boat

If car#7 has problems in almost every race, it doesn't matter how competitive it is pacewise. Merc are doing fine with Nico, but what is happening to Michael is a disgrace, unbelievable.

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That happened at Ferrari with Schumi's teammates. Remember what happened with Rubens in 2002? Even worse than what MS has had. Sometimes things just don't work out, it doesn't have to be a conspiracy.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Sometimes things just don't work out, it doesn't have to be a conspiracy.

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Pretty much so. It is also worth reminding 2001, when Häkkinen had a horrible start into the season. After the first seven races he merely had 4 points, while Coulthard had 40! This is what unluck can do to a driver.

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Originally Posted by The Black Knight

Yes, but I'll always remember the 1999 championship as the Championship nobody wanted to win. All the contenders seemed to be making all the necessary mistakes required just at the right moment to make sure they didn't wrap it up.

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True. Hakkinen retired from the lead at least four times, maybe more (Oz, Imola, Germany and Monza I remember quite well).

Ah, I think that Michael was easily the best that year, in the car in which Barrichello failed to win the race, he dominated easily. Mika was good, however, very good, on his day invincible.

Hakkinen only scored 7 points in the first 7 races or something in 2001, or something like that, until he won at Silverstone then had a better second half season, but Coulthard looked more consistant that season. And Michael I think was best.

Still each to there own.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Yeah 2001 was a year McLaren threw the title away through unreliability at the start but Mika still came away looking like the best driver that year IMO.

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I suspect you might be confusing 2000 and 2001.

Michael's done alright this year, no?

Australia: Qualifies 4th, Gearbox Failure in race while running 3rd
Malaysia: Qualifies 3rd, close to pole. Problems in race limit him to 10th, but utterly annihilated (sp?) Rosberg
China: Well of Rosberg's pace, but starts on front row and runs 2nd till mechanical failure at 1st stop.
Bahrain: Sent to back of grid, finishes 10th. Pace a bit off Rosberg in quali, but more equal in race (as in 2011)
Spain: Qualifies a little off Rosberg, crashed in race. I didn't see, but heard he was going FAST at the time.
Monaco: On pole. Would have won. Nuff said.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Just a differing opinion Jens. :)

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Hakkinen the best driver in 2001? The year when he finished 5th in the championship?

The year when seven out of the eight times that the McLaren drivers both finished a race, Coulthard placed higher?

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Originally Posted by henners88

Yeah 2001 was a year McLaren threw the title away through unreliability at the start but Mika still came away looking like the best driver that year IMO.

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You must be thinking of 2000.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Just a differing opinion Jens. :)

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No, you must be confusing the years, otherwise I fear for your sanity and deeply. DC kept destroying Mika that year in both quali and in races, after MH lost motivation after the car failure at Melbourne. Throughout the year he only had 2 good races, which he actually both won, but most of the time he was nowhere.