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Michael Schumacher
HALL OF FAME - 1994, 1995, 2000-2004
Since the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship began in 1950 the title has been won by 34 different drivers, 16 of who won more than one championship. Of the multiple champions the most prolific was Juan Manuel Fangio, whose record of five titles stood for five decades until it was eclipsed by the most successful driver in the sport's history. Seven times a champion, Michael Schumacher also holds nearly every scoring record in the book by a considerable margin. Though his ethics were sometimes questioned, as was his decision to make a comeback after retiring, his sheer dominance when in his prime is beyond doubt...
The most extraordinary driver's origins were most ordinary. He was born on 3 January, 1969, near Cologne, Germany, six years before his brother Ralf, who would also become a Formula One driver of note. Their father, a bricklayer, ran the local kart track, at Kerpen, where Mrs Schumacher operated the canteen. As a four-year old Michael enjoyed playing on a pedal kart, though when his fa
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Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969 in Hürth, near Cologne) is a former GermanFormula 1 driver, which means that he used to drive very fast race cars between 1991 and 2012. He is widely considered the greatest Formula 1(very fast cars) driver of all time. He has won seven world championship titles and has the second most Grand Prix victories in the world after Sir Lewis Hamilton. This champion, nicknamed campionissimo by Italian fans of Ferrari, is considered the most popular German personality in the world. Michael's younger brother Ralf is also a Formula 1 driver. When he was small, his father gave him a little kart. It had a small motor bike engine in it. He started getting interest from that time.
Pre-F1 career
[change | change source]In 1984 Michael won the German KartChampionship and went on to win many more. In 1987 he won the German and European Kart Championship. Schumacher signed up with Will Weber's Formula 3 race team and won the 1990 championship.
F1 career
[change | change source]Jordan (1991)
[change | change source]Debut
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Michael Schumacher - A Brief Biography
Michael Schumacher was born on the 3rd of January 1969 in Hurth-Hermulheim near Cologne, Germany. He was brought up by parents Rolf and Elisabeth in the nearby town of Kerpen where they became the managers of the local karting centre. It was in the competitive but accessible world of kart racing that Schumacher, in common with many past F1 champions, took his first steps to the very pinnacle of motorsport. In 1984 he became the German Junior Karting Champion and finished second in the Junior World Karting Championship.
In 1986 Schumacher graduated to the senior championship, finishing second in the domestic series and third in the Eurochampionship final. 1987 was Michael's final year in kart racing and he left on a positive note, taking both the German and European Championships at Gothenburg, Sweden, ahead of drivers such as Alessandro Zanardi,Karl Wendlinger and Emanuelle Naspetti.
Schumacher spent 1988 competing in the new German Formula Koenig Championship, a form of single seat racing in which the cars had Fiat engines and rea
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