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I've never liked the bloke, but you have to admire him for his donation of £5.3m to the Tsunami appeal today. Even by his standards, that's a considerable sum for him and donations by other sports stars pale into insignificance next to that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/4134731.stm

The blokes a legend. Surely if you like Formula 1 you must admire him

I think he's an cunt for ruining a once great sport. Fair do's on the donation though.

Cunt for being great?

But it's so shit now, it's not even funny. He's overrated anyway.

"Over rated"? Surely your taking the piss, i could go on for ever about his achievements ya taff wannabee

I think Ben is saying that you could stick a monkey in his Ferrari and it would still win.

Exactly.

He might have won the most championships but no way he is the best ever driver.

I guess it's not really his fault though but ferrari. As a protest I have decided I will not be being any of their cars until they stop winning. Lets see how they like that :twisted:  :twisted:

And he's German :x

Your forever in the German shadow

Very nice bloke I think.  It's not his fault he is supremely talented.  He is a very emotional man, and was deeply hurt after 9/11 and his own mother's death.  He is a very proud man, but even he could not hold back the tears on both occassions.  Not sure if I could bring myself to give that amount of money though!!

Changed your name again Brighton?

Yup, Fiisch was irritating the tits off me as I kept forgetting how it was spelt and Walrus is more apt, not that you'd know much about it....

goofy teeth is it

Thankfully.....

fairplay to the german wurst-muncher

Nah it's not even that interesting really.  Or funny.  We were stoned, and someone called me Paulrus Walrus (my name being Paul funnily enough) and it was so funny at the time it has kinda stuck.

You really wanted to know that, about as funny as death.  Sorry....  But had to dispell the goofy teeth rumours (though I did pre-braces...)!

 :roll:

The man is a legend, dunno how anyone can deny that. As for the sticking a monkey in a ferrari fair enough, but you could put schumacher in most of the cars on the grid and he would still win. You can blame him for the sports downfall, blame the other teams for having shit cars and shit drivers!

Well played for donation £5 million too... probably more than the whole of america has donated!!!!

Nah, I seriously doubt that he'd win the championship in any of the other cars. At the moment the ferraris are just far far better. Put him in an average car and he wouldn't win it like in 96, 97, 98. Barrichello has always been a very average driver but even he is good in a ferrari.

Have to say that's unfair.  Barrichello looked good in the Stewart-Ford, notably a second in Monaco a few years back.  Also, do not forget when Schumacher joined Ferrari they were a very average team with their previous drivers of Alesi and Berger.  They'd often finish in the points, but podiums were reasonably rare.  Brawn, Schumacher and Todt most notably have helped build the team to its current standard.

Schumacher also won the championship at Benneton (twice?) and look where they are now....!

Barrichello is nothing special, took him ages even to win a race in a ferrari.

Yes when Schumacher joined they were average and he didn't win, since then they have spent billions and thats why they're so good.

Remember when Schumacher broke his legs in 99. Fucking eddie Irvine came within one race of winning the championship, Irvine was shite! And ferrari have far more of an advantage now than they did then.

When Schumacher was at Bennetton they were one of the very best teams, had the best renault engine etc. then renault left the sport, benetton stopped putting any money in and they quit.

Schumacher has never won a championship when not driving the best or very nearly the best car. '94 was his best win and that was only through cheating.

Fuck off

It's the truth.

English prats really do amaze me they will do anything not to give German's any credit. All over a war

It makes no difference what nationality he is. He could be from anywhere in the world and I'd still hate him for what he's done to the sport - even England.

J1mmy behave don't make everything racial.  Schumacher is hated because he's German, but he's also hated as some people think he's ingeniune, because he has dominated a sport (which people never like), because he has sometimes come across as an arrogant twat and because the Villeneurve incident in 1997 was embarrassing to F1.  The Schumacher talent debate is interesting, as obviously he is the most successful F1 driver ever, but put him in an equal car up against F1 all time greats and it'd be interesting who'd come out on top.  You cannot fault his determination and effort, and he does well in the rain, which they claim to be a great leveller.

The problem is, F1 is a team game now, so its hard to credit the drivers without knowing how good their package is  :wink:

P.S.:  It was two wars.

I'm not going to get intoa  debate about wars again. British boys are still giving their life's now for when America saved you

Good post, yeah I hate him for all those reasons and more. The secret to his success is his manager Willi Weber, managed to get him all the right breaks at the right times, the right cars, the right sponsors, people to invest the money in his success, he couldn't really fail.

The villeneuve incident has to rate as one of the greatest all time moments in the sport though just because of how it turned out.

So Henry wouldn't be as good at another team like Coventry as he is at Arsenal?

But Football and F1 are very different. Though he did only get 2 goals in 10 for france recently so it seems it does make a difference who he's playing with.

Correct. He wouldn't get the sort of service he does at Arsenal.