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roy keane said:Latest news: FIA decided Schumacher will have to drive his Ferrari without fuel at Silverstone.Also, no matter what time he makes at qualifications, he will start from last position.
i thought after i couldent find the info anywhere you must have made it up- had me worried for a secroy keane said:My source is my imagination
Williams came close to protesting ’94 title
Sunday, 18, June, 2006, 13:00
ITV.com/f1
Williams’ engineering director Patrick Head has revealed that his team would have protested Michael Schumacher’s 1994 world title victory had it not been for Ayrton Senna’s fatal accident earlier that year.
Schumacher won the championship in acrimonious circumstances, colliding with Damon Hill’s Williams in the Adelaide season finale seconds after running off the track and clipping the wall.
The contact forced both cars to retire, giving Schumacher – who had a one-point lead going into the race – his first world championship.
There were widespread accusations at the time that Schumacher had turned in on Hill because he knew his Benetton was damaged after hitting the wall, but the German denied any malice and the FIA took no punitive action.
However, the stewards’ damning verdict on Schumacher’s antics at Monaco’s Rascasse corner this year reopened all the old questions about the seven-time world champion’s on-track etiquette, and prompted a re-evaluation of his part in previous controversial incidents.
For Head, however, it merely put an official stamp on what he had always believed to be glaringly apparent about Schumacher’s character.
“The Monaco stewards’ verdict indicates that they and the FIA believed Michael was guilty of foul play,” Head said in the July issue of F1 Racing.
“And, in a sense, I suppose you’d have to say that if a man is capable of foul play once then he’s potentially capable of foul play any number of times.
“But, as far as Australia 1994 is concerned, Monaco 2006 doesn’t really make any difference.
“And that’s because, that day in Adelaide, we at Williams were already 100% certain that Michael was guilty of foul play.
“It was so blatant.
“He was about to drive his stricken Benetton up the slip-road when he spotted Damon’s Williams about to pass him and abruptly veered across the track to prevent that happening.”
Head told the magazine that it was only unease over the tragic legacy of the 1994 season that prevented Williams from officially protesting Schumacher’s title.
“We seriously considered lodging a formal protest there and then, on the grounds that it had been so blatant, but decided against it simply because of what had happened earlier in the year,” he said.
“Because 1994 was the terrible year it was – in other words, because Ayrton Senna had been killed in one of our cars at Imola – we didn’t really think it would have been right for Damon to win the world championship that year, especially if he’d done so in court, so we didn’t protest.
“But had it been any other year – or had Ayrton not been killed in one of our cars – then most certainly we’d have lodged a formal protest on the very grounds on which Michael was found guilty at Monaco in ’06.”
Head expressed disbelief at those doubting whether Schumacher would really resort to underhand tactics, claiming that a ruthless will to succeed at any cost has always been part of his make-up.
“What I find remarkable is the mood of righteous indignation adopted by some people in the Ferrari team about what Michael did at Monaco,” he said.
“I’m not one of the extreme ones calling for him to be kicked out of F1, but what this episode proves – just as it did at Adelaide 1994 and on a number of other occasions – is that he isn’t a sportsman in the sporting sense of the word.
“He has an overwhelming urge to win and it seems quite clear that he doesn’t care how he achieves that aim.
“But I’m just amazed that people are surprised that he does these things, given the track record.
“This sort of behaviour is clearly just part of Michael’s persona.”
Adam'sbaby said:
Next week Indianapolis!
lady luck said:Another disappointing year for McLaren...