I think we lose and we will miss a great champion on the track.
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Seven Formula One world titles, 91 wins, and a Ferrari resurrection that rewrote the sport's record books — until a 2013 skiing accident left him in an induced coma and out of public view ever since.
Born in 1969 in Hürth to a working-class family, Schumacher started karting at four in a pedal kart built from scrap, won the 1987 European Championship, then tore through junior formulae to land at Jordan for one race in 1991 before Benetton snapped him up mid-season. He took his first two titles with them in 1994 and 1995, the former ending in a collision with Damon Hill that settled the championship. Moving to a struggling Ferrari in 1996, he spent years battling Häkkinen and Villeneuve — disqualified in 1997, runner-up in 1998, sidelined by a broken leg in 1999 — before finally delivering…
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I think we lose and we will miss a great champion on the track.
It is a pity for F1 to lose such a great champion, but the time to stop comes to everyone.
He will be missed as a friend and colleague and as the ultimate professional. It's the end of Michael's career in Formula One so in that sense, it is the end of an era.
People have said to me that F1 is boring because he wins everything. So presumably when he's not here, people will be happy. But we'll miss him, because he is a superstar.
If the best guy in the world retires it is certainly a sad day. You can say whatever you want, he won seven world championships and he might win another one.
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