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My
Driver Michael
Schumacher
Team Ferrari
Car
Number 1
Date
of Birth 3 January 1969
Career History
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2000 |
Wins Ferrari's first drivers' championship since 1979, and helps
secure the team's constructors' title. |
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1999 |
Drives for Ferrari. Crashed out of the British Grand Prix and
broke his leg. Won the San Marino and Monaco Grands Prix and finished 5th in
the drivers' championship with 44 points. |
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1998 |
Drives for Ferrari. Six race wins, two 2nds and two 3rds got
Schumacher so close to his third World title, after seemingly having no
chance in mid-season. Unfortunately 1998 may be remembered more for his rage
in the pits at Spa, and his stall on the grid in Suzuka, than his valiant but
ultimately unsuccessful challenge for the title. |
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1997 |
Drives for Ferrari. Finishes second in the Drivers' Championship
but is disqualified by FIA after colliding with Jacques Villeneuve in the
final race of the season. |
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1996 |
Joins Ferrari and manages third spot despite a series of
mechanical failures. |
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1995 |
Wins his second F1 title on the spin with Benetton. |
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1994 |
Drives for Benetton. Wins his first Drivers' Championship in
controversial style after a collision with nearest rival Damon Hill puts both
drivers out of the final race with Hill threatening to pass. |
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1993 |
Drives for Benetton. Finishes 4th in the Drivers' Championship
with 52 points. |
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1992 |
Drives for Benetton. Finishes 3rd in his first full F1 season,
winning his maiden grand prix at Spa, Belgium. |
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1991 |
Makes his Formula One debut with Jordan, driving one race before
moving to Benetton, where he finished the season with four points. |
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1990 |
Wins F3 German Championship |
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1989 |
Finishes third in F3 German Championship behind Karl Wendlinger
and Heinz-Harald Frentzen. |
Blanket Coverage
“How a
Sunday afternoon idea became big business.”
Fifteen years ago,
Sunday Oct 6 1985, Mike Drury facing bankruptcy, sat in his sitting room
watching the European GP at Brands Hatch on TV. He listened as Murray Walker
spoke of the problem of cold tyres for Formula One drivers. Then an idea struck
him, armed with a Stanley knife he began cutting up strips of his sitting room
carpet and then wrapped it around the wheels of his old Mercedes…the foundation
of tyre warmers became reality!
He headed for
the Williams headquarters and explained his idea. The final version of the
product was released six months later at the Spanish GP. Nigel Mansell’s FW11
was the only car fitted with the special tyre warmers enabling him to be on the
pace nearly eight laps sooner then anyone else! Teams were impressed, however
Ferrari never got to grips with the idea trying to reproduce their own tyre
warmer, failing! They admitted defeat and asked for a supply!
