Why is planetf1.com always so anti-Schumi

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From Winners and Losers

Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, 2nd
Michael had an impressive drive to second place, but such was the superiority of the Ferrari F2004 over other cars that he rarely had to dive into a banzai overtaking move to get past anyone. His skill on Sunday was a remorseless qualifying pace after he got into his Schuminator mindset.

Most of Michael’s moves came from him scaring other drivers into mistakes – such as Sato and Webber - while he simply pulled alongside Jenson Button on the start/finish straight.

Though spinning at the start of a race can hardly be deemed as ‘lucky’, he was a tad fortunate not to sustain any damage when he banged into Jenson Button at the second chicane and left his car side on to the rest of the field.

Had he taken Jenson out of the race with this uncharacteristic “four wheeled slide� he could have been in to see the stewards. As it was we got a memorable burn from the stern.

Fernando Alonso, Renault, DNF
One of the big debates, post-Monza will be – how come it’s left to the marshals to decide who wins a World Championship.

At the Nurburgring last year Schumacher’s Ferrari was beached in an almost identical position to Fernando Alonso’s Renault. It was perched on the outside of a bend. The only difference was that Alonso’s was on the outside of a fast chicane and very close to the racing line, whereas Schumacher’s car was visible from the top of the hill down to the Dunlop Kurve and was quite a way off the racing line.

In Germany the marshals made the decision to push the German back onto the track. In Italy they made the Spaniard switch off his engine and retire the car. One of the decisions was wrong – we need to know which.

The points Schumi got from the European GP at the Nurburgring helped him win the 2003 World Championship. Had he got the treatment Alonso got on Sunday we would now be looking at just a six times World Champion.

Perhaps the ‘pushing out of a dangerous situation’ should be scrapped. They can push out, but then the driver heads back to the pits and retires.

That is just today, in previous races and articles there are many more examples.