No he wasnt brillaint - thats EXACTLY why I posted the way I did
I realised that. Which is why I commended you for putting brilliance in quote marks, so you could get away with calling him brilliant while actually not doing so.
Because he obviously thought he was gods gift - when he would have been able to win FAIRLY if that was the case , and as I indicated there where several incidents where he beyond all the rules to try to avoid losing
So, is that arrogance or self-belief? 'cause I'd go with the latter personally.
Nothing at all to do with this discussion so why even introduce it.
LOL. Oh, you're good.
However it was a DRIVING action which caused the DQ not a team action (it was so blatant FIA had to do something)
Yep. He tried to drive into Villeneuve to seal the championship, not the race win. As I recall, if neither car finished Schumacher was champion? So he was out to end both their races, not end Villeneuves and go on to win it.
He was punished for this. No point taking the wins away, since winning the race wasn't his objective when he made the illegal move.
The pooint is the action he took on his own head merited a ban and he got away scot free (as he lost the Championship anyway) , but the FIA couldnt risk banning one of the main drivers for 98
They also didn't ban Senna for the '91 season (despite threatening to do so) after he slammed into the back of Prost at Suzuka and went off on a tirade at Jean-Marie Balestre.
As they took away the points (and therefore results) they should strip the race wins, otherwise No one won the race.
So, they should take away all the McLaren wins from last year since they were disqualified from the championship? Not exactly the same situation I'll grant you, but similar enough.
You wouldnt see anything wrong
OoooOOOOOOOOooooohh!!!
Everything alright with you today? You seem a bit more snippy than normal.
He had no right to go barging into DC after nearly killing DH in 94 and JV in 97, even then I cant see how the spa incident is more dangerous than the other two
"Nearly killing"?
Get off. He clobbered into the side of both of them, probably the strongest part of the car with the sidepods being in the way. Yes, it was dangerous. But "nearly killing" Hill and Villeneuve? Yeah, sure.
As for Spa '98 - that was indeed rather more dangerous by my reckoning. Hugely wet, bugger all visibility, Coulthard tooling around on the racing line at a much slower pace. Schumacher saw him late, got some steering lock on but caught DC with his front right wheel, tearing the front of the car to bits. That wheel could have come back into his helmet, he could have hit DC even straighter and had a bigger accident, he could have hit him at a different angle and gone spearing off to the wall. Fortunately, we'll never know.
A single quote from a book ( which obviously took time to either write or talk through with an ghost writer/editor) is completely different from live commentary - but hey obviously 100's of hours of comentary doesnt count
Alright, you want live commentary? I'll go look up the Monaco '97 quote from Murray and Martin. Give me half an hour to dig through my tape.
