Inside Michael Schumacher’s final, most dominant, World Championship
F1: Beyond The Grid
karenellenbevan
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Still to this day, Schumacher is the only driver to have won five titles in a row as he and Ferrari dominated F1 from 2000 to 2004.
So why was the German at his most ruthless during that last triumph in ‘04?
20 years on, Tom Clarkson speaks to McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella (Michael’s performance engineer in 2004), Sabine Kehm (Michael’s media and PR consultant) and Ferrari Sporting Director Diego Ioverno (Ferrari’s gearbox engineer in 2004) for unique insight into how Michael obliterated his opposition that season, what he was like to work with and how it felt to be part of the most successful period in Ferrari’s F1 history.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 20 years ago Michael Schumacher made history by winning his seventh Formula One world |
| 0:09.7 | championship. Michael Schumacher is in cruise mode. He is coming through to claim his 13th |
| 0:15.8 | win of the 2004 World Championship. Michael Schumacher shows everyone who's |
| 0:22.1 | boss the Italian flags proudly proclaimed. Michael Schumacher shows everyone who's boss. |
| 0:22.8 | The Italian flags proudly proclaim the car |
| 0:25.9 | as being made in Italy. |
| 0:28.0 | But the driver, his gift made in heaven. |
| 0:33.0 | 2004 was Schumacher's most dominant title. |
| 0:37.0 | With 13 wins from just 18 Grand Prix, |
| 0:40.0 | the most victories he ever secured in a season. |
| 0:42.8 | Michael broke his own record of the most driver's titles in F1 history at the time |
| 0:47.7 | and became the only driver to this day |
| 0:50.4 | to win five championships in a run. |
| 0:53.0 | 2004, definitely faster car in all areas and Michael as well, I would say faster driver |
| 1:01.0 | himself than 2003. |
| 1:03.2 | The ease that he did achieve the results that he had in that year, |
| 1:08.4 | it's probably fair to say it was its best season. |
| 1:11.4 | Obviously a driver is an three that was to win, but he never ever gave the impression that the team |
| 1:18.8 | was not at the center of his project at the center of his mind. mind. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello and the center of his mind. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello and |
| 1:27.0 | and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid |
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