U know those cars are much easier to drive than the 80’s car though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I guess what the other poster meant was how well he would perform against peers. My gut feel is not that great because not his era and vice versa. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I actually forgot about that. It seems he was even knocked out. Probably contributing now as well his recovery.
Todays' skill set is so vastly different than from guys in the 60s. Today absolute precision, speed, driver fitness play a much larger part than back then. IMO impossible to compare.
Similar to what Eddie Irvine did when he left Ferrari for Jaguar in 2000. Well, maybe a bit different as Eddie knew Ferrari would always be built around Schumacher. So why not take the pot of gold from Ford/Jaguar?
Lauda's book on GP racing states that he worked out heavily every day in order to stay in shape to race. It comes with a picture of him running up a mountain in Switzerland with his trainer at his side.
Modern F1 is much more systematic about driver preparation and the drivers of today seem far more focused on improving their athletic ability than just relying on natural talent and gained experience. I think any modern F1 driver could master the stickshift era cars given that they were not on such a knife-edge for stability. Even David Coulthard mentioned on a few test drives a couple of years back that the more recent cars were more demanding physically and mentally to drive than his era, and that wasn't only because he'd been out of the seat for a while. I suspect any modern F1 driver would adapt to and quickly master the older technology, they'd drive them as well if not better than drivers of prior eras did back then. All the best, Andrew.
That could be true, but on the other hand drivers of older times had to look at death in the eyes each time they seat in their cars - there is still risk, but the level differs by several orders of magnitude. That could have a different impact on the ability to drive with the maximum performance.
Probably true. I wonder, though, if some wouldn't be spooked by the safety aspect, in view of the sanitized racing they have now. How can one give total commitment when you know any mistake can be your last?
agreed Also agreed. Bravery was something that did play a role. These days the death aspect is almost completely taken away, I guess it's replaced by ''can I afford to lose these points if I mess up''.
Not all drivers took it that serious. Schumacher really changed the game with absolute fitness dedication. It was from his fitness program that the rest took note and knew what it took to be successful.
This would be almost akin to saying we’ll never know if Michael Schumacher could’ve mastered a turbocharged F1 car (i.e. I believe the last turbocharged race car MS raced was the Sauber-Mercedes C11 Group C machine).
No, it wouldn't even be "almost akin" . But if you're going down the engine road, Hamilton has only had Mercedes F1 engines. Lucky boy.
To even compare the talent of Michael in any area of driving skills or technical understanding of a racing car with crapilton is almost insulting to anyone who saw both of them race. I much prefer Alesi to Michael, but despite all of jean's enormous talent, in the whole Michael was the better driver, perhaps not in all circunstances but in general he was, Elton is a couple of notches below them..except in one area, luck, in that department he's very, very good!
And he probably doesn't know either that the other one was actually fast and had to face a true Goat in order to win.
Do these guys know there was a pre Sir Hamilton F1? https://www.planetf1.com/news/rubens-barrichello-lewis-hamilton-michael-schumacher/ https://f1i.com/news/361058-hamilton-one-of-the-greatest-of-all-time-declares-brundle.html
