Dave I agree but since I've written this after I've read
wowf1 post and before you posted your post I have to post it rather to delete all I’ve written.
wowf1 wrote:Since when did Mother Teresa ever want revenge? You'd think being Mother Teresa and wanting revenge is a slight contradiction in terms...would you not manchild?
My opinion of the video where MS makes the mistake is that at the next corner, MS knows that Hill is close behind, so he tries to cover his line. He probably hoped that Hill would use his common sense and back off a little, but instead Hill blazed in and put them both out.
With the other vids, it's very difficult to tell who did what. It looks at first as though MS turns in on them, but if you watch Hill(?)/Villeneuve closely, they go straight on and never look like they are going to turn in!
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Name of Mother Teresa is commonly used to describe a good person so I used it to emphasize that Senna and Schumacher are completely different drivers. Senna was fighting for the win by driving too fast if necessary risking his own life while Schumacher was using all means to get the victory which often included deliberate collisions with opposition, use of illegal technicalities on car etc.
If MS was driving non-CF chassis he’d have at least 4 WC titles less! Chassis made of steel pipes and covered with aluminum were dangerous but they also enabled that no driver ever thought to deliberately collide with another car and “win” in that fashion because it usually meant serious injuries or death.
Regarding Hill/Villeneuve accidents, those two especially the second one are unquestionable. You must be joking trying to blame Villeneuve for accident! His own team members condemned Schumacher for that including Agnelli family (FIAT/Ferrari owners), his Brother and Ferrari fans too including worldwide media (not to mention FIA’s disqualification).
I already explained and if you don’t believe me you can read carefully the FIA sporting regulations – when a following car passes/reaches 50% of length of the car in the lead than car in the lead looses the right to chose trajectory. Hill reached 50% of MS car before MS started pushing Hill to wall.
Villeneuve had not just reached half of his car before the turn but got in front of him for 50% and than MS hit Villeneuve’s sidepods (that is middle of the car). On board video shows that MS realized that Villeneuve had passed – turned his wheel a bit left and than when Villeneuve got in front MS turns right, smashes into Williams and continues to turn the wheel right even though the impact already occurred. Villeneuve as in the lead when MS hit him even though many think that he was just trying to pass MS. That was as dirty as nothing ever seen in F1 before. It is absolutely unquestionable even if it wasn’t already seen pattern of MS behavior.
He has repeated the same behavior this season - 2005 on Mark Webber. Every time a driver passes him from inside Schumacher smashes into that car just as if he can’t handle the truth.
In 1993 he became WC by doing the same thing to Mika, in 1994 and 1995 he smashed Damon, and in 1997 he tried the same thing with Jacques. Every time he has a slower car he starts preventing opposition from overtaking him on any cost. In 1992 Mansell had overtook Senna so many times they battled greatly in Monaco but Senna never smashed into Mansell just to shake off his frustration which is what Schumacher was doing. How many times could have Gilles smash Arnoux and end his race during those several laps?
No one has ever made so many illegal moves like MS did. No champion was ever disqualified for the season and I think that no driver ever was too. He has quantity of titles but no means to prevent people from finding him dirtiest driver ever. You might not like what I’m saying but that is the beauty of free world – I can think about MS what I like including millions of F1 fans worldwide and his statistics, trophies or money can’t erase what history will say about him.
Fact that his moves are still debated after so many years just confirm of what magnitude they were.
He has all the records and all the money but no respect of general population of F1 fans as true champions like Senna does. To be honest I wasn’t Senna’s fan but I never hated or disrespected him because there was no reason for it. I’ve highly respected him, admired him just as I did with all other drivers.
When MS showed up in F1 it was like when barbarians enter the Rome (it still is). They looted the Rome just like MS looted F1 but none of them will go into history as pure – victories will be mentioned as statistics but moral and culture will not because in both cases they didn't exist.
