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Originally Posted by McLovin
Benetton wasn’t great when Schumacher got to the team, was it? McLaren and Williams were dominant in then decade prior to Schumacher winning 2 championships for Benneton.
Then he went to Ferrari, which had a terrible car and hadn’t won a championship in decades, and made them into a multi Championship winning team. IMO no other driver could have done that at Ferrari.
Yes, nobody could win a championship in the worst car. But imo Schumacher could, and did, win in a car that wasn’t necessarily the very best.
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I'm not 100% on board with the fine print here, but that's fine... IMO when Schumi /Benetton came good, Williams had just killed Senna and were no longer allowed active suspension, Benetton they had a hell of an engineering team and (shhhhh) they cheated with traction control. They were never officially outed but everyone in the paddock knew from the sound of the engine cutting out, and I recall at some point scrutineers even found an incriminating menu in the software that was hastily removed ;-) Flavio was running it, need I say more ?
At Ferrari Schumi initially went nowhere until... Todt eventually built a team that built a car that even allowed Eddie Irvine to win (not exactly Senna). I still think it's the team/engineers/car more than the driver and the best drivers certtainly can mold a team to their liking and increase performance, there is no question those guys made it theirs and were better than their teammates - the ones they allowed in anyway... To me there has not been a Prost-Senna driver level team ever since. (irvine and barichello were never Schumacher, Bottas was never a hamilton, etc) Anyway, what were we talking about ?? ;-)