How many races until Schumacher has/does one of his "stunts"

How many races until Schumacher has/does one of his "stunts"

Poll: How many races until Schumacher has/does one of his "stunts"

Total Members Polled: 174

Bahrain 1st GP: 13%
Austrialia 2nd GP: 6%
Malaysia 3rd GP: 6%
China 4th GP: 2%
Spanish 5th GP: 6%
Monaco 6th GP: 16%
Turkish 7th GP: 3%
Canadian 8th GP: 18%
Euro 9th GP: 6%
He'll be a good boy this time. Honest.: 24%
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Derek Smith

45,736 posts

249 months

Saturday 14th August 2010
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mattikake said:
Could be another wall incident but sadly before my time and a total lack of video evidence makes that impossible to judge in retrospect. Sounded like a racing incident given the total pile-up including Patrese, that followed. Not really deliberate measured tactics as per Schmacker?

IMO Schumi really and clearly is in a different league.
I was a big fan of Peterson and as Patrese was banned for the following race and the drivers were rather outspoken in their criticism of him, I've got to say I went along with them. There was also the heroics of the drivers, Hunt amongst them, pulling the injured Peterson from the flaming wreckage. But the enquiry put it down to what it was: a racing incident. Patrese bumped Hunt: such things happened on a race by race basis. But that did not satisfy Hunt.

With the Patrese/Berger incident, Berger was about to be overtaken by Patrese and chose that time to pit. He knew Patrese was after a tow but still slowed suddenly for the pit entrance, giving Patrese no chance. But, as you say, a mistake that drivers learnt from. But Hunt blamed Patrese for it. Autosport were much more generous in their interpretation but Hunt's opinion carried a bit of weight and it didn't do to go entirely against it.

Berger orginally wnet along the lines of: 'I didn't know he was there' sort of thing and that's what stuck in my mind.

But both were racing incidents, although Berger's was due to lack of thought and Patrese's a lack of judgement.