Michael Schumacher

 

 

 

 

Michael Schumacher (born January 3, 1969 at Hürth-Hermühlheim in Germany) is a Formula 1 pilot. Statistically, in terms of seven world titles won, those 91 wins, 68 pole positions and 76 fastest laps, Michael Schumacher is regarded as the best F1 driver of all time.

 

In 2006, following a survey conducted by the FIA, Michael Schumacher was voted by fans as the most popular Formula 1 driver to ever evolved in the sport.

The fact that the career of spectators and viewers delight in the sensational developments, but on the other hand was also involved in a series of scandals caused by his pilotage [1], Michael Schumacher is one of those people that or you love him or hate him.

 

Corinna is married and has two children, Gina Maria and Mick.

[Edit] Career [edit] Before 1Michael Schumacher Formula does not come from a wealthy family and most of the pilots of Formula 1. His father was a builder, but also deals in Kerpen karting circuit, hence his passion for racing Michael and his mother was working in a canteen. The only talent that went into Formula 1, through karting, Formula Koening, Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Sports Prototype Championship. His great opportunity was named Willi Weber, his current manager, who accepted Michael into Formula 3 team in exchange for his appointment as manager for a very long time, Weber was aware of Michael's talent.

 

The car that won the title in Formula 3 in Formula 3 1990Până to reach Willi Weber's team, Michael won the championship in the German junior karting 1984 and 1985 and senior in 1987. In 1985 he was vice karting world, and in 1987 was European champion.

 

In 1988 he participated in Formula Koening, winning the national title in Germany, and in Formula Ford, where he was European vice. A year later promoted in Formula 3, German series, which eventually took third place, winning the championship a year later.

Although the next step should be Formula 3000, Willi Weber, Michael decides to send the Sports Prototype World Championship, namely Peter Sauber's team, so Schumacher is taken under the wing of German car manufacturer Mercedes Benz the fund when his team Sauber and was preparing to debut in Formula 1.

The two years in the Sports Prototype were not very good in terms of performance, however the talent show it was obvious Michael is appreciated by everyone as the best driver of his generation.

 

[Edit] In Formula 1 [Change] debut in Formula 1adjuvanted Bertrand Gachot following his arrest following an altercation with a taxi driver in London, has created a place for Jordan Ford team for the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, which was bought by Willi Weber for his client. It was an opportunity that Weber did not want to lose, despite the fact that Peter Sauber and Mercedes Benz Schumacher wanted to start only in 1993 with the Sauber team.

After qualifying session while Michael won the seventh of the day, managing to match the best performance of his team, one that started in Formula 1 that year. Place obtained while the Spa Francorchamps circuit is very hard for young riders, has shocked everyone. Race was not as good, unfortunately, the German abandoned in the first round of technical problems. But the impact was made.

 

Andrea de Cesaris, the second pilot from Jordan in Belgium, said after the race, visibly impressed by Michael's performance that if it does not abandon, would certainly duel for victory.

 

Evolution of the Spa did not remain unnoticed by Tom Walkinshaw, sports director at Benetton, who knew Michael from the Sports Prototype Championship, he's recommending it immediately Flavio Briatore who did not go ahead and purchased the contract of Schumacher in Jordan.

 

[Edit] Early years BenettonMarele Prix of Italy 1991 was the second race in which Michael was to have started and already the second team, this time one with pretensions and his new team mate Nelson Piquet was, none other than World Champion 1981, 1983 and 1987. Piquet's status but not demoralized Michael who managed a best time in qualifying, starting the seventh, but a better race, finishing fifth.

 

Schumacher again managed to be faster in qualifying than his teammate titratable at Estoril in Portugal Grand Prix, but was defeated in the race where he finished sixth behind Piquet.

Another place is managed by Schumacher in six Grand Prix of Spain at Barcelona, ​​but the year is concluded with two retirements, the first due engine and the second due to a wet circuit pirouettes.

 

In his first year in Formula 1, Michael Schumacher took the start in six races, finished in the points in three of them ranked at the end of the season in 14th place.

 

Confirmed for 1992 season, Michael denies not shown performance in 1991, so the Grand Prix of Mexico goes for the first time in his career on the podium, finishing third. Another third place is signed and the next race, the Brazilian, while in Spain, Michael to finish second, performance that was equal to the Canadian Grand Prix. A third place is in the German Grand Prix, first race at home, because at Spa Francorchamps, where Formula 1 debut in just a year before obtaining his first victory. Season is concluded with a new place second, third of that year, the Australian Grand Prix, who promoted Michael ranks third in world championship with a total of 53 points in front of the triple world champion Ayrton Senna.

 

Despite the fact that material is part of the competition which allowed him to constantly fight for victory, Michael continued outstanding performance in 1993 when a curious way every time he finished a race did podium height is reached in the Grand Prix of Portugal when he won, ending the season in fourth place with a total of 52 points.

[Edit] The first two titles in 1994 mondialeSezonul started very well for Michael Schumacher who won the first two races - the Brazilian Grand Prix and Grand Prix of the Pacific, taking a consistent advantage in front of Ayrton Senna, considered his rival to the supreme title. Unfortunately, the battle between the two have to end prematurely, at Imola when Brazil suffered a fatal accident.

Races at Imola and Monaco also went to Michael Schumacher, as well as those in Canada and France, the latter being preceded by second place in Spain, so with four wins from as many racing season seemed just a ride in the park.

Was not at all like that, Michael suffered several disqualifications in the next race being at one point even suspended for two races because his car was considered irregular.

The first disqualification occurred at Silverstone when Schumacher overtook Damon Hill in round heating, this is prohibited by regulation. At that time Germany received a suspended two races of the FIA, which is however more to be done to revitalize championship try, one entered into troubled waters after Roland Ratzenberger's fatal accidents and Ayrton Senna. Curiously, the FIA ​​gave Schumacher and his team the right to choose the two races.

 

Then came the disqualification of Belgium, when the car was irregular, so Michael was absent from the Grand Prix of Italy and of Portugal. Meanwhile, Damon Hill it significantly reduced the distance that separates the first place, still occupied by Michael, and was now only one point so that the end of the season to announce exciting.

Michael won the Grand Prix of Europe, with Hill second place, then the situation was exactly the opposite in Japan, so that the difference of a point before the last store and race of the year.

1994 Australian Grand Prix will remain in history for incidents between the two claimants to the supreme title. Michael Schumacher was in charge when he made a mistake and hit the wall of protection so that Damon Hill to caught and tried an overtaking on the inside in a tight corner where there was very little. The two cars collided, Michael is sent directly into a wall of protection, while Hill went for a short race, but dropped later due to suspension affected during the collision. British abandonment meant time when Michael Schumacher was crowned world champion.

Michael successfully defended his world title in 1995 when he managed double after a season in which he won nine races, thus equaling the record set by Nigel Mansell in 1992, totaling 102 points, 33 more than Damon Hill, who finished second. Moreover, Michael has helped the team to win first world title in the Constructors' Championship.

 

In the autumn of 1995 but decided to leave Benetton, attracted by the lure of money offered by the Scuderia Ferrari: 35 million dollars per season, the largest salary ever offered a Formula 1 pilot. The contract was signed in August and will become effective as of season 1996.

[Edit] Ferrari between 1996 and contact between Michael Schumacher and 1999Primul his new team after the season occurred in 1995 when Germany was invited to the first session of tests held at Fiorano. Although Scuderia Ferrari finished the season in third place, their car was light years behind the Benetton and Williams cars, so they needed much more work.

Aware that he could not question a world title in 1996, Michael Schumacher preferred to work quietly to prepare for a possible assault in 1997, promising his supporters a victory in the first six races.

 

After a drop in the first race of the season due to engine trouble, then building their first Ferrari V10 engine, Michael podium in Brazil, then came a new and drop two more podiums in Grand Prix and Grand Prix of Europe Republic of San Marino. But the sixth race of the season and first victory would bring. Left the third on the grid of the Grand Prix of Spain, Michael gets a very poor start, falling to ninth place, but gradually recovered to win the final. The first promise made by Germany was so respected.

Despite victory in Barcelona, ​​Ferrari car was still not even close to championship leaders in terms of competitiveness, so that Michael was aware that staff had made and changes. In these circumstances convinces Jean Todt, his boss, to give up John Barnard, technical director, and to bring in his place on the Ross Brawn, the one that Michael worked and won world titles at Benetton. In addition to the Scuderia Ferrari and Rory Byrne is brought to the post of chief designer.

 

Results achieved in the last four races of the season 1996: wins in Belgium and Italy, Portugal and third in second place in Japan, were very promising, so Scuderia Ferrari and Michael Schumacher announced his return to battle for world title in 1997.

 

And it was because it was for the 1997 Scuderia Ferrari F1 fight for supremacy for the first time since 1990. The first part of the championship was dominated by Jacques Villeneuve and the Williams Renault, Ferrari has improved substantially but the car, Michael Schumacher went on to power, took advantage neutralizing Villeneuve. Given final battle at Jerez, the last stage of the Championship - Grand Prix of Europe - when two players were involved in a collision caused deliberately by Michael Schumacher. Germany was then forced to abandon, and was excluded from the final order of the championship, while keeping the results from each race, a relatively strange decision of the FIA.

 

With a machine designed by Ross Brawn, Schumacher was again involved in the fight for world title in 1998, the battle being waged this time with Mika Hakkinen of McLaren Mercedes.

 

Michael Schumacher passes David Coulthard of Great Britain in MP 1998Debutului one season was not too happy that Schumacher left in the first race and took third place only in the second, so it already had an advantage Hakkinen consistent after first two stages. Schumacher won the stage but finished third and second in the fourth, where Hakkinen dropped out, so again balanced situation, the two pilots and then dividing the periods of domination victories.

Key to season 1998 Belgian Grand Prix was dropped when Hakkinen, leaving Michael to lead the race. Germany seems to be headed toward a victory - one that would have been first in the league - when he was forced to abandon after a stores with David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen's teammate at McLaren, is a premeditated action Scotsman It brought him simply Schumacher race.

Schumacher still won the next race, at Monza and the peer-to-point, 80, on Hakkinen. Finn to revenge the Nürburgring, so that last step would be the decisive. And again, for the second consecutive year, Jackson lost the title in the last stage, this time being handicapped by a clutch problem and then one from tires.

 

A third attempt to win the world title with Scuderia Ferrari was made in 1999. The year began badly, but the two successive victories at Imola and Monaco have propelled the German leader of the championship for a short period of time. Then came the British Grand Prix when Schumacher crashed in the very first lap of the race from which he fractured a leg, so had to miss six races, thus losing any chance at world title.

 

His return came in time for the Grand Prix of Malaysia and was a triumph, dominating German qualifications and the race gave the first of Eddie Irvine, his teammate at Ferrari who was involved in the fight for the title. Subsequently, the Grand Prix of Japan ranked second, enough to bring his team first world title in the Constructors' Championship after 16 years.

 

[Edit] Five years, five titles mondialePerioada 2000 - 2004 was definitely dominated by Michael Schumacher, Germany's passing and on behalf of seven world titles, more than any other F1 driver.

Previous years, the 2000 season started well for Schumacher, he won the first three races of the year and are comfortable installing on top of the championship, taking advantage of 24 points from its main rival, Mika Hakkinen. But later Finn had the power to significantly reduce the difference in points, with three abandoned and Schumacher's consecutive mid-season, two of them in the first round, so that with victory in the Grand Prix of Belgium took the lead in championship, Schumacher retrogradând second.

But Germany was part of a sensational season by winning the final at Monza, Indianapolis, Suzuka and Sepang, victory at Suzuka was one that brought the world title.

Escaped the pressure caused by the misfortunes of the late 90's, Michael Schumacher had a 2001 season can be likened to a walk in the park, only David Coulthard încurcând than his checkbook, but was held to respect Scottish. His fourth world title came at the end of the year in which he won eight races and collected 123 points, 58 more than second place finisher in final Hierarchy.

 

The fifth world title was won in 2002 at the end of a season in which dominance was even more categorical than in precent. Michael has won 11 races, then the absolute record of wins in one season, and accumulated 144 points, another record in Formula 1 that year. That was declared champion since July says a lot about how the German dominated the championship, however, overshadowed one of his team's decision to demote Rubens Barrichello in second place in the Austrian Grand Prix to give Schumacher's victory.

 

Michael Schumacher celebrates victory at Indianapolis 2004În contrary to all expectations, Michael Schumacher began the 2003 season poorly, necâştigând any race in the first three stages. Moreover, on the morning of the fourth phase of the received news of the death of his mother. However decides to compete, and finally wins the race, remaining in place Kimi Raikkonen, the leader of the championship and then the world title rival.

 

The second part of 2003 season saw Juan Pablo Montoya and the fight for world title, so be announced end interesting. After Michael Schumacher's experience and said the word and won races at Monza and Indianapolis, two very important races in the final standings economy, so that before the last race needing just one point to win the world title, which also point to and achieved.

Season 2004 was a carbon copy of 2002, Michael Schumacher managed even more wins and more points than in 2002, 13 wins and 148 points this time, they brought it in the window with trophies at the seventh title world.

 

[Edit] The last two rules before the season sezoaneSchimbarea drastic significantly handicapped 2005 Scuderia Ferrari team and Michael Schumacher, so the heyday between 2000 and 2004 was over, no matter the Michael fighting for the world title in that season, one in which managed to win a single race, the Grand Prix of the United States of America, and at the end which was ranked third in the Drivers' Championship.

Although Scuderia Ferrari back in 2006, the season took a turn of the seasons asemnătoare 1997 and 1998, that started badly for Michael, mid-season had the power to come back and tie his rival to the world title, the This time Fernando Alonso, because then you lose the title in the last stage.

Michael Schumacher left the pole position in the first stage in 2006, but the race had to be satisfied with second place, Renault and Fernando Alonso with a better strategy. Then the second stage had a penalty which cost him ten places on the grid, finishing the race until the sixth. A drop in the third stage, the preceding two consecutive wins at Imola and the Nürburgring so that Michael shows his intentions to the world title again.

The four consecutive victories Fernando Alonso successful in stages six, seven, eight and nine, were neutralized by three successive victories for Michael Schumacher successful, so that before the German Grand Prix of Hungary was the only eleven points behind Alonso behind him. The first great battle for the title given to the Hungaroring, but it was not won by any one of the two combatants - abandoned Alonso and Michael Schumacher finished outside the points race because of mistakes his team not called to change the tires for later appeared on German final ranking eighth in the disqualification of a pilot ended before it.

 

The second great battle for the title given to the Turkish Grand Prix and was won by Fernando Alonso, Spain's increasing its advantage to 12 points. Then came the third, the Italian Grand Prix, when Michael won Schuamcher and Fernando Alonso dropped out, the advantage being reduced to just two points and then was completely neutralized after Chinese Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher won the race.

 

The fifth great battle will lie with Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard won the Japanese Grand Prix while Michael abandoned. Finally, given the final battle in the Grand Prix of Brazil, one in which Michael Schumacher has had numerous problems, but despite their race made a sensation, one that will not be forgotten too soon for fans of Formula 1.

 

[Edit] RetragereaLa end of the race counting for the 2006 Italian Grand Prix held at Monza and he has earned it, Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula 1 pilot activities at the end of the season. Its place was taken at Ferrari by Kimi Räikkönen.

 

[Edit] RevenireaÎn 2009 after the Ferrari driver, Felipe Massa, suffered a serious accident during the Grand Prix of Hungary, the international press wrote about the possible return of Schumacher on the track until Massa will recover. [2] And what the press had announced, was confirmed on 29 July 2009, when Ferrari revealed that Schumacher was elected to replace Massa. [3] It was reported that Schumacher will return to the European Grand Prix on 23 August 2009, which will take place in Valencia. After a series of tests performed seater that Ferrari used the 2007 season, and another series of medical tests, Schumacher said it can not compete in Formula 1. German accused neck pain following a motorcycle accident, suffered in February. [4]. In December, following rumors aparaute Brawn GP team following the acquisition by the Mercedes, after his departure from McLaren and Button after the decision to have a 100% German team, confirmed that it has signed a contract for three seasons with Mercedes GP, which will have a salary of EUR 7 millions. [5]