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Originally Posted by SlowOne
Good point - what is the definition of greatness?
As given to me - it's not what you've done, but what you've left behind. Fangio, Clark, Moss raised the game. They left behind techniques behind the wheel that were copied. Stewart raised the game by leaving behind a business approach to ones F1 career, and the focus on safety. Prost left behind the notion of winning a race at the slowest possible speed. Senna left behind levels of car control that allowed him to beat others, cadence acceleration, and levels of fitness that others had to copy. Schumacher has left behind a bunch of numbers to be beaten - but so did every one of the others mentioned above.
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I know what you're saying, but i think the modern Era of F1 those type of things will never be left for others to follow or copy - It's become such a technical precise art that there's only 10ths between the top guys, and that's all you need to make a difference that or getting the perfect strategy where others fail... Michael has been a master of this, and not forgetting racing in Wet conditions....
I think Michael will be the only benchmark in the next few years for people to try and compare to - so what if that is just a bunch of numbers, it's unlikely for me that you'll ever get anything else now in this era.... and what an impressive set of numbers it is! (One i don't think will be beaten)
The cars are too fast, and have too much grip to see amazing control where people are power-sliding and gaining time, or trying amazing techniques as the cars can only really be driven one way, and it's who can drag the last few 10ths out of it...... F1 has evolved soooo much since the days of Clark, Moss, Hill, Stewart and Co, that it's really impossible to compare to that now - the sport (or motor racing in general) just isn't like that any more - there's not much of a safety risk for one thing
