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Good news about Shorty. I hope he recovers well.

Good to see the Pineapple at the races, also. Looking great as usual!

When an athlete operates his craft at the extreme edge, with so much at stake and so many variables in play - I can't think of anything more complex than a modern Formula 1 car - he is bound to make a mistake now and then. He may be a cold, calculating German, but he's also human. Look at the sheer number of laps involved with practice, qualifying and the race. Compare it against the drivers of 40 years ago. No comparison. A modern driver is under such incredible scrutiny compared to Gurney, Fangio... even Senna and Prost. This intense scrutiny will uncover more blemishes. Its a product of the modern era and it will only get worse. As far as the greatest ever, I think it has to be Schumacher. As an athlete and master of a machine and the 500 people backing him, he has no equal. The drivers of old were casual, old, gentlemanly and not at the same level of tune. MS is the class of the field. He took a hobbled, broken team basically winless for many, many years and built them into a dominating force that we haven't seen in a long, long time. Simply put, Michael became bigger than Ferrari or F1. While I'm sad to see him go - I think he has lots of life in him still - he has done it the right way.