Michael Schumacher...

So, Michael Schumacher... the world’s best? I don’t think so. “BUT MR GRUMPY HE WON SEVEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS LOL!!!” I can hear keyboards being battered already. Well, there’s a difference between the best and the most successful. I wouldn’t deny he’s the most successful F1 driver, but he’s certainly not the best. Let’s look at the facts... Over the last decade Ferrari have had the best car by a mile, not to mention that as the number one driver, Schumacher gets the best of everything. Best engine, best gearbox etc. The car is designed around Schumacher’s driving style and the number two driver just has to live with it. But look at the number two drivers... Rubens Barrichello for example, outperformed Schumacher several times despite having the second best of everything. Now he's driving for Honda he's pretty much out of contention. Conversely, Felipe Massa was absolutely nowhere before he came to Ferrari, since then he's outperformed Schumacher on occasions and won races.

What about Schumacher’s sportsmanship? He has none whatsoever as has been conclusively proven over the years. In Adelaide in 1994, he deliberately took Damon Hill out of the race to prevent him winning the championship. Schumacher had made a mistake and hit a wall, damaging his car. But instead of parking up, he drove back onto the track and cut Damon Hill up on a corner, damaging Hill’s car and preventing him from finishing the race. In 1997 he side-swiped Jacques Villeneuve in a blatantly foul move but failed to prevent the Canadian collecting the title. Most recently was the fiasco in qualifying at Monaco 2006. To stop Alonso from getting the opportunity to achieve pole, he parked up on a corner and deliberately stalled, bringing out the warning flags. F1 rules forbid drivers to set a fastest time on a part of the track where there are warning flags for an accident. Pole position at Monaco is nine tenths of the way to winning as everyone knows how hard overtaking is there. Why would the “world’s best” need to do things like that? Simple... now Ferrari have some competition in Renault, he hasn’t got the best car so he can’t win fairly. What was the punishment handed out for this blatant act of cheating? Starting from the back of the grid. Pathetic. He should have been disqualified from the race altogether, if not more, but oh no, not the Great Michael Schumacher. Why are people so quick to forget incidents like that? Any other sport and you're branded a cheat and never live it down.

He is surrounded by sycophants at Team Ferrari, like Ross Braun, who when Schumacher was overtaken on a corner by Montoya, and then spun himself, called Montoya a classless and reckless driver, despite there being no contact between the cars... yet when Schumacher runs another driver off the track and onto the grass he is praised by Mr Braun for "brave" driving. What a hypocrite!

Ask a typical Schumacher fan about things like that and they have trouble answering, presumably finding it hard to talk with their lips attached to Schumacher’s ass. It begs the question... who are they going to worship now that he's retired? It has been said that he will be missed greatly and the sport will never be the same... Too right it won’t be. I'm glad to see the back of this pretentious, arrogant character who brings the sport of Formula One into disrepute on a regular basis.