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Originally Posted by telboy

When Schumi arrived back in '91 in the jordan I thought he was pretty good, a breath of fresh air amongst the 'oldies' that were around back then. Putting the 7up Jordan (which was an awesome car, they just had crap drivers) 6th on the grid while he deputised for Bertrand Gachot who was serving time for macing a police officer I think. Schumi only managed about 600yards before he burned the clutch out.
BUT it looked like we had a rising star in the Jordan....only for him to bugger off to benetton the very next race!?

He won his first race at spa a year later, but he still looked pretty good. Then he started getting the arse on when ever he got beat by his team mate. I remember when they draughted Johnny Herbert in at benetton. They obviously thought he'd be no where as fast as Schuey. Then Testing (yes they tested back then) showed that Herbert was quicker than Schuey....thats when Schuey had it put into his contract that his team mate couldn't see his data. Then Herbert actually beat him in a race and won a race...Then he started with the 'I want all the new parts on my car' cry. At this point I went right off Mr Schumacher.

Then obviously he moved to Ferrari and would only have a deffinate No1 status and that his team mates couldn't have a car better than his.

its all a load of rubbish. If he WAS a champion driver he would take his team mates on with the same equipment and information and not spit his dummy out when he gets beat.
It says to me that he had a lack of confidence in his own ability to win, for him to have so many conditions in his contracts to slow his team mates down or stop them from beating him.

I don't think he will get the same treatment if Mercedes have anything to do with the contracts. If it was just Ross Brawn then yes he would, but I think Merc' will have a say in his deals as Rosberg has a dad who i'm sure is very forceful when it comes to contract time.

ross brawn was the Driving force behind Schueys glory years and I would say that he was 90% responsible for Schueys success.

I think Schuey deserves more than 10% of his success giving the fact that he was the one who drove the car round the track.

And i can't see Ferrari giving him a better car so he can beat his team mate who drives for Ferrari More like he got the upgrades first as he was the no1 driver.

Is his contract for Ferrari in the public domain??