Michael Schumacher retired a decade ago but he still holds some of the biggest F1 records...
Despite walking away from Formula 1 at the end of the 2012 season, such was Michael Schumacher’s prolific talent he still holds many of the sport’s most prestigious records a decade later.
The German clinched his first World title in 1994, beating Damon Hill by a single point after the two collided at the season-ending Australian Grand Prix. It was the first, but by no means the last, controversial moment to cast a shadow on Schumacher’s career but he put that behind him to a second title the following season, this time destroying Hill with 102 points to 69.
It is a record he today holds with Lewis Hamilton, the Mercedes driver securing his seventh in 2020. But while they share that one, Schumacher has the longest consecutive streak with his five-year run with Ferrari. Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Juan Manuel Fangio have all managed four-year streaks.Schumacher not only claimed grand prix wins in 15 of his 18 full-seasons on the Formula 1 grid, he also did so 15 years in a row.
Schumacher is also tied with Hamilton for this record, the Briton falling short of making it his own last season when he recorded a first-ever win-less campaign.Last season Max Verstappen claimed one of Schumacher’s records with 15 wins in the season, Schumacher having previously held the record with 13. But while the Red Bull driver trounced that one and won the title with four races to spare, he wasn’t able to match Schumacher’s six races to spare set in 2002.
That race was round 11 in a 17-race season, Schumacher winning with six races remaining. Nigel Mansell is second in the history books having won the 1992 title with five races remaining.With his Ferrari in a league of its own in the 2002 season, and especially with Schumacher behind the wheel, calling his campaign ‘dominant’ almost doesn’t do it justice.
If a driver wants to let his rivals know he’s reigned supreme perhaps the best way to go about that, aside from winning a race by a full lap as Schumacher did at the 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix, would be to secure the hat-trick – pole position, the race win and the fastest lap of the race.
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