Jack Kruer
El Presidente
Not to get off the business track, Jack, but after a tumultuous off season for F1 what do you think will happen this year with so many new teams and the driver changes with all the others?
I would certainly expect Schumi to do well in a Mercedes but I also think Ferrari is even stronger. Then there's Toro Rosso and Kubica driving for Renault!!!
Should be interesting in Bahrain this weekend.
That is the great thing about F-1, there are so many teams I like. I have and always will be a staunch Ferrari supporter. I am not however a big Alonzo supporter. I don't know why, but I just don't like him. I have always liked Massa, Hamilton is phenomenal and Sebastian Vettel is a future World Champion and he is sooooo young. WOW! I like the "No fuel" pit stop rule. It makes them really develope their technology. Look at when Honda ruled and they came up with Variable Valve Technology, Used in almost all modern cars on the road today. It came out of F-1 and the need to have an engine get better fuel mileage and still develope a lot of horsepower. I think it will still be a Ferrari or McLaren at the end, maybe Vettle.
Speaking on Schumacher...the man is a God in a car. He is 42-43 years old, no spring chicken, but still one of the fittest men in the sport. It will be interesting to see him again.
THESE are the Formula One records Michael Schumacher has set since his F1 debut in Belgium in 1991:
Most drivers' titles: Seven (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Longest reign as champion: Four years 11 months 17 days (October 8, 2000 to September 25, 2005)
Most wins: 91
Most pole positions: 68
Most wins in a single season: 13 (2004)
Most successive wins in a season: Seven (2004)
Most second places: 43
Most fastest race laps: 76
Most races led: 141
Most laps in the lead: 5096
Most points: 1369 (includes 78 from 1997 when he was excluded from the final standings after a collision with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in the title deciding race)
Most points in a season: 148 (2004)
Most successive seasons with a win: 15
Most podiums: 154
Most wins at the same grand prix: Eight (France)
Most wins from pole position: 40
Most hat-tricks (pole, win, fastest lap): 22
Most successive races in the points: 24 (2001-2003)
Most successive podiums: 19 (2001-2002)
Entire season of podium finishes: Schumacher is the only driver to do it (2002)
Biggest winning points margin: 67 (2002)
Fastest title: 2002 (won in July with six races to spare)
Most 1-2 finishes: Schumacher and Ferrari teammate Brazilian Rubens Barrichello have the most one-two finishes of any pairing in Formula One history: 24 (2000-2005)
I have I think, every race on either tape or DVD since 1986. All of the Senna Prost battles, Mansell etc... I even have an bootleg incar from Senna's in the 1988 Japan race where he drove Prost off the track, then came back in to win. Only to have it taken away, because you can't do that. Great tape, no commentary, just the engine and watching Senna a bit of Prost.
Yeah... I like F-1.
jk