Another good race, great to see Williams on top again. Well deserved win there, car looks good, no rain to help them there, fast in standard conditions. Lets hope for more from them.
Schummi being a complete idiot as usual, how can he blame Senna, then from about 1/2 mile back he just ploughed straight into him? He has talent, but he always been a complete n00b and continues to be.
Put him in a standard car, he turns out to be just a standard driver. His team mate, never world Champion, has consistently our performed him in all aspects.For too long he got away with everything, nice to see him in trouble. Lets hope he feks off this year!
Well said Tunnie.It was an open secret in F1 for years that Ferrari were allowed to run a very bent car,which gave him a huge advantage most of the time.For example,they had traction control during the period when it was supposedly banned.He was also allowed to get away with murder (almost literally at times) on the track.Many of the stunts he pulled would have resulted in a very long ban for any other driver,which is why imo his record stands for absolutely nothing.
It started at Benneton - they were cheating in a very clever way.The FIA (and everyone else) knew they had TC,but it was apparently buried too deeply in the computer software for the "brains" at the FIA to find it. Senna told Williams in no uncertain terms that Schumachers car had TC and asked them to protest it.Williams declined because they couldnt prove it.
Once Scummy and most of the technical personnel from Benneton moved to Ferrari the situation changed. Ferrari had been so long without winning anything that they were on the brin k of pulling out of F1. The FIA couldnt allow that to happen.F1 without Ferrari was unthinkable. The only explanation is that they were given a nod and a wink that they would be allowed to run a bent car to get back to the front,which is what subsequently happened..
It almost came undone when Irvines car was protested by Mclaren and found to be outside the rules regarding bodywork/aerodynamics. They should have been thrown out of the championship,but instead were given a slap on the wrist (and probably told to be more careful in future).
All this is motorsports worst kept secret,but no-one dare say it or print it because without 100% proof,they would be sued to oblivion.
Imo Ron Dennis was going to do whatever it took to prove and expose all of this and was then setup to almost destroy his team and drive him out of F1.
Ferrari sold its soul when it let the cheats from Benneton hijack its team,and Scumacher is the most hateful cheating excuse for a sportsman ever to sit his arse in a racing car imo. I have been completely convinced of it for almost 20 years and nothing will ever change my mind about him. Senna,Prost Mansell - all hard as nails,pushed the boundaries,wouldnt give anyone an inch they didnt earn the hard way,but none of them were cynical and dangerous cheats consistently over a period of 10 years.
As you say - he is now in a normal car,built to the rules the same as all the others and he has been shown to average at best.