By the way in my humble opinion the absolute best race car drivers bar none are from formula 1 with Michael Schumacher without a doubt the most talented race car driver of all time followed by Ayrton Senna and Jim Clark and Fangio.
Michael Schumacher after winning two championships with
Benetton, Schumacher moved to
Ferrari in 1996 and won five consecutive drivers' titles with them from 2000-2004. Schumacher holds many records in Formula One, including most drivers' championships, race victories, fastest laps,
pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season. Schumacher is the first and only Formula One driver to have an entire season of podium finishes (2002).
THESE are the Formula One records Michael Schumacher has set since his F1 debut in Belgium in 1991:
Most drivers' titles: Seven (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Longest reign as champion: Four years 11 months 17 days (October 8, 2000 to September 25, 2005)
Most wins: 91
Most pole positions: 68
M
ost wins in a single season: 13 (2004)
Most successive wins in a season: Seven (2004)
Most second places: 43
Most fastest race laps: 76
Most races led: 141
Most laps in the lead: 5096
Most points: 1369 (includes 78 from 1997 when he was excluded from the final standings after a collision with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in the title deciding race)
Most points in a season: 148 (2004)
Most successive seasons with a win: 15
Most podiums: 154
Most wins at the same grand prix: Eight (France)
Most wins from pole position: 40
Most hat-tricks (pole, win, fastest lap): 22
Most successive races in the points: 24 (2001-2003)
Most successive podiums: 19 (2001-2002)
Entire season of podium finishes: Schumacher is the only driver to do it (2002)
Biggest winning points margin: 67 (2002)
Fastest title: 2002 (won in July with six races to spare)
Most 1-2 finishes: Schumacher and Ferrari teammate Brazilian Rubens Barrichello have the most one-two finishes of any pairing in Formula One history: 24 (2000-2005)
He has won more than 30 more races than any other driver and is the best driver at 190mph in the rain. This guy made 80 million bucks in 04 - need I say more.
They won't even let American IRL race car drivers be test drivers in Formula 1 because they consider them so inferior. They just don't start early enough doing gokarts.
If you ever get to see a formula 1 race - I saw it in Hungary - and you hear the cars from a standing start revving their engines to 19,000 rpm you will never look at racing the same plus these guys race in monsoon rain conditions as well. Enough said.
Cayman - Just clearing my head after all this TSP crappola that has occurred.
