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Post by Alex on Sept 18, 2021 16:03:16 GMT
Just watched Schumacher on Netflix. The bulk of the film is his rise to the top first with Benetton and then getting Ferrari to the top. I guess because I was so young when it happened, I didn't really understand the significance of Imola 94 in his story but it was quite moving seeing the effect it had on him.
The latter part of the film is about his accident and the effect on the family. There is little detail about his recovery and what condition he is in and it almost has an obituary feel to it. It's hard to know if the release of this film now is because they know he may be nearing the end but I sincerely hope not although I think we've long been resigned to the fact he'll never recover and will likely not be seen in public again.
It's been so easy the last few years when we've had Lewis Hamilton taking the sport by storm to forget just what an astonishing driver Schumacher was during his racing career. This film really bought back a lot of those memories. Well worth watching.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2021 16:12:06 GMT
He not only had the talent but the ruthlessness to do whatever it took to win. No matter how wrong it might be.
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Post by Ben on Sept 19, 2021 16:59:26 GMT
As a Schumacher fan, it was an emotional watch. I feel blessed to have seen him in his prime, but I'm also sad at what has happened to him.
The bit that really got me was at the end, when his son Mick lamented at how he was robbed of so many moments he could have had with his dad growing up, and how he would give up everything to get that back. That really hit me so hard.
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Post by alf on Sept 24, 2021 8:27:50 GMT
I must watch it, though I as an anti-fan. Although he was equally flawed as a human (but gifted as a driver) in terms of being ruthless to the point of crashing people off, I am a Senna fan. I was also a big Damon Hill and Williams fan at the time, so Schumacher was naturally the enemy!
Like Senna (and Alonso for that matter), Schumacher had an esoteric driving style - it's interesting that some of the guys with one-off styles can do so well. In some ways I preferred the Schumacher era of being able to run the car flat-out like qualy laps the whole way through, how many times did he win by doing that and taking an extra fuel/tyre change. He handed it to most of his contemporaries on a plate being able to do that lap after lap for a whole race...
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Post by PetrolEd on Sept 24, 2021 9:13:57 GMT
Enjoyable but I didn't find it added anything to the story we didn't already know so one of those documentaries for everyone rather then an anorak like my good self. But it was a good reminder how ruthless then man was, his banging wheels with Damon was suspect at the least, his barging into Villeneuve was something else.
Having spoken to a few people, what is an odd observation is how many people will say they are a Senna and Schumacher fan and yet seem to get very worked up by the young Dutch lad who's an absolute saint compared to the previous champs.
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Post by Alex on Sept 24, 2021 14:00:57 GMT
I think maybe it's because Max is currently looking likely to stop our Lewis becoming an 8x champ so they're getting much more worked up about it. In similar ways to a lot of people who get more worked up about Schumacher taking out Damon Hill than they do about his move on Villeneuve even though it's debatable that the latter was more egregious.
I'm probably a bit guilty of that in that I think I'd be a much bigger fan of Max if he wasn't racing Lewis because I want Lewis to win for the simply reason that he is British in the same way that if I wasn't English I'd probably be much more in agreement that Italy, on the balance of things, probably deserved to win the Euros in the summer but I am English and an Arsenal supporter so I'm still fuming that the cheating Italians beat us whilst strangling Saka!
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