Who do you think is better- Lewis Hamilton or Michael Schumacher? I will go with both. Let’s see in this article, maybe your perceptions change for the actual winner of the F1 race. Michael Schumacher had been a constant runner up over the race, but when did Lewis Hamilton start dominating with a sum total of 91 race wins and became the most constant leader years after years in all the F1 Grand Prix walkovers?
Michael Schumacher’s records were being constantly unaffected and spotless for a long time, but suddenly Lewis Hamilton came off with a striking entrance in the race to win over. This Sunday, Britain surpassed the German celeb, which is quite astonishing news as the record of 91 formula race broke after a long time. Lewis Hamilton begins to win over with the one at the Portuguese Grand Prix-a race that was held after a long time of 24 years.
Just the 77-point and five races apart, after which Lewis Hamilton was able to achieve that one record which will highlight his name right on the top with the great German who owns seven world championships.
This season has brought up quite a blast between the careers of the two prominent racers. It was believed that the German’s records are so high for anyone to reach, and his 5-year span of supremacy with Ferrari was assumed to be one of the astonishing successes in the game, overtaking which alone could practically be next to impossible. But, time changes for all; there is always someone to take the place of the constant one. In the last five years, Hamilton has been conquering this peak point one after the other riding with Mercedes.
During the age of F1 race, Schumacher, while competing with Benetton and Ferrari, refueled his car in the middle of the race, which can be taken as a good sign because it gives cars an opportunity to overtake behind the framework, the reason is a higher fill-up of fuel means lesser stops during trenching. Along with this strategy, one more thing helped out in boosting up during the race, which was Bridgestone tyres that were used by the team’s way back earlier. These tyres never suffered from any type of rapid degradation that today’s modern-day F1 cars are struggling to cope with, for instance, it was seen in the beginning that Portuguese GP with Hamilton struggled in warming his tyres up because of which he was being overtaken by a teammate Valtteri Bottas.
Now the rules are changed, F1 is not permitted to refuel anymore. The F1 race is also gaining huge impetus in the sports betting platform with the help of leading sports betting bookies Philippines. The one at the pole position takes the benefit of this that starts from the pole position in winning up the race. Hamilton and Schumacher have always scored their best, whatever is the rule. Below are their scores:
- Speaking of Hamilton, he scored 97 out of his 262 races, even in the pole position
- Schumacher has a record of 68 out of 306 poles, which indeed are also elite scores.
Both leaders have shown the beat in their specific generations as they both carry on with the foremost out of the rules and mechanism of the time.
Let’s showcase the standard of challengers
Schumacher came into play when he had an extreme competition with Briton Damon Hill in the first step of his ladder.
Hamilton is completely good to go with his only Nico Rosberg. Sebastian Vettel does have a 4-year continuous win over in the World Championship from the year 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull, but a time does come when McLaren & Hamilton didn’t seem to have accelerated over the match with the work of arts of Christian Horner & Adrian Newey.
Here’s something interesting about Rosberg and Hamilton, who truly challenged each other after they had quite a history as they were teammates and because of the core conflict that came in for both of them. Their bond was quite tight during the days of go-karting, but somehow their career entangled, which lately blew up in the 2015 and 2016 seasons.
Finally, Rosberg was the one who led the first F1 race in the year 2016, the first to come in an inter-team conflicting season. The German driver Finnish retired on the spot giving all the credit to the “taxing season” that played a massive role for him in quitting the game that he was into.
Playing with the Numbers
F1 race has the pointing system, which means that the first 10 drivers can pick up a few of the points in the drivers’ championship after a race. Schumacher slowly became the rising star because of his ability to find a place among the prime three on a continual basis. Schumacher enjoyed his 40, whereas Hamilton has passed the check flag first 56 times on starting from pole position. But going on to the second and the third position, the German has more wins over Hamilton’s.
Schumacher overcame Hamilton on the number of fastest laps that he recorded with 77 to 52. But surprisingly, Hamilton has piled up 4,076 points over Schumacher’s 3,961 despite racing in five fewer seasons than the German.
Both have been the topmost in their favourite tracks. Hamilton in Hungary won eight of his 92 at Hungaroring. And after that, he gained seven wins each at the GP of Canada and at Silverstone. Schumacher’s has shown up its best performance at the GP of Canada with 7 wins, that was followed by 6 each at the famous circuit of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium and the Japanese GP.
Track Framework
This is the only point where Hamilton clearly vanquishes Schumacher as he believes that his place in the F1 race and society commonly lets him take a social justice stand that his German fellows were never really known for. Hamilton has had a great impact to push this era of Formula One and stand in harmony with the Black Lives Matter movement.
