Champion vs Sportsman

For those of you not familiar with it, but last week was a very large race in Forumla 1 (F1). The race took place in Monaco, on the street circut around the city. Looks to be gorgeous and really quite an amazing place. The history of the race now is really a long one, and it is one of the only "Traditional" places left in F1 these days.

During the qualifying session, former world champion Michael Schumacher halted his car in a very key corner. Preventing his rivals from flying through at their best speed. Schumacher claims that this was an error, and he had stalled the car. His rivals claim that Schumacher had stopped and worked to prevent them from achieving their best laps.

For most Drivers I don't think that this would have been an issue. If they had stalled the car then they would have been given a latitude and told to be more careful, but with Schumacher it was a little different. You see in the past he has crashed into his opponents... and been a real menace to anyone who is challenging him, so he was given a pretty stiff penalty when starting the race.

Basically it comes down to that although Schumacher holds pretty much every record in F1, he will never be remembered as a truely great driver. He will always be remembered by most of the world as a menace that will terrorized his other opponents. When I was younger I remeber the rivals that there with Senna and Prost, and how they would race, but they never behaved like Schumacher. They will always be remembered by their greatness... but Schumacher will never be remembered for his greatness. His speed and his wins, but not his greatness.