Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henry, your subject line is perfectly correct; different eras, different everything. Schumacher said exactly that at the press conference after yesterday's race. Your facts are wrong. In a message dated 7/22/02 1:57:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, henryting10@yahoo.com writes: > Juan did it the old fashion way, with no assist from > his team mate. Fangio won the world championship in 1956 only because his Ferrari teammate, Peter Collins, during the Italian Grand Prix, the last race of the season, voluntarily came into the pits and turned his car over to Fangio. And at that moment Collins had a chance to clinch the world championship for himself! > Michael Shumacher, though not of his > own decision won quite a few races when his team mate > was leading and due to team orders, had to slow down > to let him take the checkered flag. > Shumacher might be the best F1 driver ever, but > circumstance and team orders dictate quite a few a > races that he won. > Wrong again. Only once during Schumacher's career have team orders given him a victory: this year in Austria. And given his margin of victory in the championship, it made utterly no difference. Still, your subject line was right. Seth - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html