I think the most interesting thing will be the lack of re-fuelling... After all, Schumacher won a large proportion of his races on fuel strategy 
or by pushing others off the track 
Or by "crashing" just after he finished his qualifying lap to try to stop anyone beating his time,or blatantly using traction control when it was banned...............the list is endless, which is why imo he could never be spoken of in the same breath as the really great drivers.
I know Senna was no angel but there were depths which he wouldnt sink to, and watching him drive (without driver aids) was like watching a great artist, he had class in abundance, and scumacher had none at all.
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Sorry but that post made me laugh.....
Senna is my hero, 12 yrs ago we named our son Ayrton after him, but to say he wouldnt sink to depths like Schumacher is tripe......
He was THE ultimate driver, Senna, but, like Schumacher, sometimes did things that tainted his genius......
Dont you remember what Senna did to Prost in Suzuka.......??
He did nothing more than take Prost directly and intentionally off the circuit.....
As I said in my post Senna was no angel, his latin temperament got the better of him sometimes and he did hate Prosts guts. What he did to Prost at Suzuka in 90 was pure revenge for the fact that Prost did the same thing to him on the same corner in 89 when they were team mates (most people seem to forget about that one).
The difference between Senna and Scumacher imo is that with Scumacher it was a mindset, he didnt believe the rules applied to him, he knew the team would have a backroom meeting with the FIA and he would get a slapped wrist at worst. His first reaction to other drivers was to intimdate them in whatever way he felt like it, no matter how dangerous the manouvre might be.
I can remember him driving Frentzen off the track just because he wanted to, they werent even on the same lap.He would have put his own brother into the pit wall at 180mph if Ralf hadnt lifted off the throttle. And the fact that every time he started on pole he drove straight across the front of the person in 2nd place causing them to lift and potentially cause a multiple pile up in the process should imo have been enough to have him banned without all the other outrageous/ dangerous/ cheating stunts he pulled during his career.
The stats suggest he is the greatest driver ever, but he wouldnt make it into my top 25.
My own personal greatest was Gilles Villeneuve, who never even won a championship.
Interestingly Scumacher tested one of Villeneuves old Ferraris at Fiorano about 10 years ago. He did a couple of warm up laps then pulled into the pits and got out. He said the car was a death trap and he wouldnt attemp to drive it really quickly, because if he had an accident in it he wouldnt stand a chance. That to me says a lot about modern F1 drivers compared to the old ones and also says a lot about what is wrong with F1 today.If people like him knew there was a very high chance of hurting themselves badly, or worse in the event of an accident, they would have to have a more responsible attitude in the car and learn their craft properly.
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