I agree, nice article. These questions are very interesting: What if they examine the car and nothing is found? What sorts of questions will that place in his head? I wonder what could happen to his ego if he gets beat by his teammate on his home track? FA is still a very young world champion.
Wrong yet again. Schumacher had no intention of returning to the team to support Irvine. He was ordered to by the team once they found out he was home playing soccer and not bedridden by his broken leg, as he claimed.
Also, wasn't it interesting that by finishing 2nd to Mika at Suzuka, the team got the constructor's title but Mika got the driver's? Had Michael beaten Mika, Irvine would have been champion. I wonder if he really tried his hardest... Not that I mind though. I'm not really a fan of Irvine and I think Mika deserved that title more than Irvine did.
Well if you look at older F1 footage you'd see that Michael always had a huge grin when Mika won a race, and he was always very happy for him. Those guys are good friends to this day. I've never seen Michael so happy for anyone else's success, not even his own teammates. So I don't think it's terribly unlikely that Michael would hold back a little so Mika can get the title instead of Eddie. Michael wouldn't have joined Ferrari and help build the team up if he knew that Eddie would have won the first title.
+1 One thing these guys can learn from is Mika's class. Even when Schumacher pulled some questionable moves on him, Mika never once complained. One of the best sporting moves that I ever saw was at the starting grid in the final GP of 1998 when Mika went over to Michael prior to the race (MS was on pole, but stalled it) and offered him a handshake that looked very real and not staged whatsover. It was true sportsmanship. I am too glad that Ferrari took the Constructors and Mika got the drivers in 99 (no offense Andreas). The battle that MS and Mika had in 2000 were great to watch as well, again the last race at Suzuka comes to mind. These two guys were on a different level and literally drove a way from everybody else on the grid. Mika has NEVER uttered a single bad word about MS and has always praised him.
He may of not wanted to outside of the track, but once on it, I think he tried his best to help Eddie.
Excellent video, how about that pass at Spa in 2000 when MS and him dove on either side of the Lapped Car. Thank god the guy didn't move left or right.
I'm pretty new to F1...only been watching it for a few years now. I'm kinda getting the feeling like I've missed all the good stuff. Watching videos like the one posted by maxorido and others and reading stories of the past "great ones" makes me wonder if I will ever be able to experience that type of true hard grit racing, incredible rivalry and fenominal driving like that of the past. Those times must have been so special and amazing. I'm excited to see if any of those "F1 fires" get relit!
