Audi Offer Schumacher Le Mans Drive

[oldtimer]

yup.. will do.. but at the greatest race in the world.. le mans!!

I am one of those fortunate enough to able able to say 'yes - at the greatest race'.  He was sensational in the Junior Mercedes team...

[Nordic]

Yep saw him race at Le Mans in the C11, he was pretty handy setting the fastest lap and being the first and only merc to finish. I also saw him at Silverstone in 91 where he came home 2nd in the Mercedes-Benz C291.

My dad also reminds me that the first time we saw him race was at the Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festivial some time in the 80's.

[Matt Harper]

I am one of those fortunate enough to able able to say 'yes - at the greatest race'.  He was sensational in the Junior Mercedes team...

Didn't he stuff the car into the guard rail under the Dunlop bridge, during the race - or did I just dream that?

[Rusty]

At last the only stuffing the sausagemunching gruppenfurher will be doing now will be with bratwusrt and sauerkraut unless he's chomping on Bernie withered chipolata. 
He 's a complete cheating c**t.

 

[Perdu]

Rusty, I'm sure I detected a slightly negative vibe there man.

Not that the bagacrud doesn't deserve some.


Still I wish I was even slightly as good at smashing other people outadawayyyy!

I really do not want to pay to watch him at LM next year, what a turn off!

 

bill

[Boorish Grobian]

When I went to the USGP this year, one of my mates I was with was so giddy afterwards, said he always wanted to be able to say he saw Michael Schumacher win a GP in the flesh.  I had to bite my tongue a bit and say I was happy for him.  Honestly, I'm thrilled to be able to say I saw guys like Alain Prost, Jackie Stewart, Gilles Villeneuve, Ronnie Peterson, Niki Lauda, Emerson Fittipaldi, etc. race in person.
Having seen Senna race still means nothing to me and I suspect I'll always feel the same Schumacher.  Just can't anything about them to make me feel warm & fuzzy.  As I said before, winning a boatload of races and titles means nothing to me, its all about the way they were won.
Fax

[monkey]

I think I am in agreement with some others on this thread. It never fails to amaze me that 60 thousand plus spectators will travel from the UK alone to Le Mans every June un yet the media give it scant coverage at best. Even in 1988 when the Jags were up for it the BBC couldn't be bothered to show any of the race even though they had announced that they intended to do so. And for years any newspaper coverage has been either none existent or cr+p. I will (God willing) be going next June whether Mr Cobbler bothers to turn up or not. If he does, I expect that his appearance would galvanise the UK media at least to commit a few column inches to the world’s greatest motor race - which surely is not a bad thing.

[bird]

* bird does a little wee

I'm there in a heartbeat.

You oldies don't know a good driver when you see one

  

[oldtimer]

* bird does a little wee

I'm there in a heartbeat.

You oldies don't know a good driver when you see one

  

Eh?  Are you suggesting that us oldies do not recgnise Herr S to be a good driver?  Not me!

Genius, some say, is only bestowed on the flawed.  Hhhhmmm maybe, maybe not, but it does seem that most are flawed.  I can recognise him as a driving genius (base on his innate driving ability - surely even Fax must agree that the German one can handle a racing car rather better than most  ), at the same time as recognising and accepting the undoubted flaws in his character.

We could argue until the cows come home about who is/is not a genius in their chosen fields but I bet the majority of those named will have some fairly serious character flaw somewhere (John Lennon - genius, George Best - Genius, Picasso - Genius, Margret Thatcher - just flawed!)

[monkey]

We could argue until the cows come home about who is/is not a genius in their chosen fields but I bet the majority of those named will have some fairly serious character flaw somewhere (John Lennon - genius, George Best - Genius, Picasso - Genius, Margret Thatcher - just flawed!)

I struggle with this I'm afraid and I tend to get a bit grumpy on this type of subject. I don't think he is even close to 'Genius' he is/was a racing driver and that is it. Sure he was better at it than most his contemporaries and better too than many before him but that was about the long and the short of it. Give the same set of circumstances to someone else with a similar background, similar drive, similar parental ambitions and you would get pretty much the same thing again......... sorry he’s a bloke that can drive quick, that is it.

[termietermite]

* bird does a little wee

I'm there in a heartbeat.

You oldies don't know a good driver when you see one

  

No.  It's just that we're old enough to have seen some truly great drivers.   You're just jealous.

[oldtimer]

We could argue until the cows come home about who is/is not a genius in their chosen fields but I bet the majority of those named will have some fairly serious character flaw somewhere (John Lennon - genius, George Best - Genius, Picasso - Genius, Margret Thatcher - just flawed!)

I tend to get a bit grumpy on this type of subject. I don't think he is even close to 'Genius' he is/was a racing driver and that is it.

Hence the inclusion of the words 'chosen field' to try and avoid such grumpiness and endless arguments