In 2000 Schumacher won his third World Championship and more significantly, Ferrari's first since Jody Scheckter in 1979, after a hard-fought year-long battle with Mika Häkkinen.
2001 Schumacher took his fourth drivers' title in a season that lacked the championship drama that had defined the previous four season. Schumacher scored a record-tying nine wins and clinched the world championship with four races yet to run.At the Belgian Grand Prix Schumacher scored his 52nd career win, thus breaking Alain Prost's record for most career wins.
2002 a dominant year, Schumacher took his fifth Drivers' title (equalling the record set by Juan Manuel Fangio). Ferrari won 15 out of 17 races and Schumacher wrapped up the title with six races remaining in the season. Schumacher also broke Nigel Mansell's and his own record of 9 race wins for most victories in a season, scoring 11 and finishing every race on the podium.
2003 Schumacher broke Fangio's record by winning the Drivers' title for the sixth time in a closely contested season
2004 Schumacher won a record twelve of the first thirteen races of the season, only failing to finish in Monaco after a controversial accident with Juan Pablo Montoya under the safety car period. He clinched a record seventh drivers' title at the Belgian Grand Prix. Bridgestone had been the key as the tire was superior to Michelin over the season. He would finish this season with a record 148 points, and a new record of 13 race wins out of 18 that season, surpassing the previous best of 11, which he had scored in the 2002 Formula One season.
2 comments:
Ferrari are no longer the dominating team we saw during Shumi era... wht a difference one man can make...
Schumi still work for ferrari as consultant but he is at his best when he is behind the wheeels.
Its true, the michael-mika era was probably the best rivalry in racing i have seen.
its sad mika retired so early from F1
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