With seven world championship titles, Michael Schumacher the most successful formula 1 driver of all time. Nevertheless, the legacy of the “Schumi” is not free from criticism. Some accuse him of, for example, to have a team, never a real competitor had neither Benetton nor later at Ferrari. Ex-Benetton team boss Flavio Briatore stresses, however, that Schumacher has got in him a special treatment.
“The number 1 driver was just faster. The one who was in the race before the other”, declared the Italians in the Podcast ‘Beyond the Grid’. Schumacher have not enjoyed in the case of Benetton hence, per se the number 1 Status. He was simply faster than his team-mates have been and have made this to number 1.
“If there is in a company of six or seven the seller, then who is number 1, sells more. This is quite normal,” concludes Briatore a comparison to the business world and reveals: “I was always against the two top players in [the same Team] fight against each other. This was in the times of Prost and Senna [at McLaren].”
Briatore, the Problem with Patrese broke
The mean but not that Schumacher didn’t get better Material than his respective teammates. “He was just faster. After two or three races he was faster than Piquet”, recalls Briatore to Schumacher’s debut with Benetton in the fall of 1991. At its Premiere in Monza, the German ahead of team-mate Nelson Piquet came to the finish.
in 1992, in Schumacher’s first full season, he won points in the internal team duel against the much more experienced Martin Brundle 53:38 WM. In turn, a year later, he defeated his new team-mates Riccardo Patrese 52:20 meters, even more. The tasted and the Italian not at all. “With Patrese were in a Spa in a lot of Trouble,” recalls Briatore to the 1993 season. imago images / Motorsport Images Michael Schumacher and Riccardo Patrese in 1993
“He came to me and said he was not satisfied, because Michael had the better car and so on. I said to him: ‘I think you’re right. We make it so: I go to the Garage and speak with Rory [Byrne] and Ross [Brawn] and tell them that we swap the cars'” reports the former team boss added: “I spoke then with Michael, who was pretty mad.”
Only a Benetton team-mate was able to keep up …
“But I said to him: ‘If you’re mad, then just drive faster. Then the Problem is solved permanently.’ Then Michael was much, much faster.” In Qualifying, Schumacher and Patrese took almost two seconds, the race in Belgium, he finished as the Second, Patrese finished Sixth and was in the goal more than a lap behind Schumacher.
After the 1993 season ended Patrese finally, his formula 1 career. “For the other riders, it was difficult to accept,” says Briatore, in terms of Schumacher’s Superiority. He reveals: “Martin Brundle was the only one close to Michael approached. All the others were swept away by Michael. Maybe it was the fact that Brundle did not want to beat him.” imago/WEREK, According to Briatore, Martin Brundle (li.) the only one He wanted to keep up to Schumacher came
“just. But Patrese and Piquet wanted to be in front of him. But that didn’t work. Martin Brundle had the best approach,” said Briatore. Even more, it was in 1994, when “Schumi” with 92 points, world champion. In that year, changing Benetton team-mate, brought it together, to just eleven points, though Schumacher even had to suspend two races.
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