Comments on: Michael Schumacher vs Adrian Newey, 1991-2008 (F1 in numbers)

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:44:36 +0000

Um… it was never schuey vs newey. That just rhymes. It was actually Newey vs Byrne. Between Byrne and Newey, they have steamrolled the opposition over 20 years

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:34:54 +0000

You got half right! We should have some sort of “top ten bizarre comments that turned out to be true” list.

By: CT

CT — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:27:03 +0000

“Nice comparison but Newey had two drivers with his cars in every race…”

So did Shumacher! He often got his win at the expense of/thanks to his team mate ……

By: Sasquatsch

Sasquatsch — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:04:37 +0000

To be honest, I think it is more of a comparison between Newey and Brawn/Byrne, who have been with Schumacher all though 1991 until 2006, with the exception of 1996 when John Barnard designed the Ferrari.

Sure Michael did a lot to win with the car, but in a less competetive car he couldn’t win except the occasional (lucky) victory like in 1992 and 1996.

Formula 1 is about both the driver and the car. Not just the car or just the driver.

By: K

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:41:05 +0000

Cool.

Titles: Newey 6 Schumacher 7

By: PJA

PJA — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:35:28 +0000

With the rule changes this year I think we will defiantly see a major shake up in the order of the grid compared to previous years. The problem with some of Newey’s cars has been that they were often fast but fragile, if there are no reliability issues with the new car I can easily see it regularly challenging for wins.

By: A Singh

A Singh — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:28:16 +0000

What would have been great would be seeing Colin Chapman, Gordon Murray and Adrian Newey competing, whilst given free reign on the regulations.

The amount of progress would probably beggar belief.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:09:22 +0000

I assure you absolutely none of it was. Which of his books are you thinking of? I’ve got three of his and none of them are about Schumacher or Newey.

The only book I referred to in writing this was “McLaren: The Cars 1964-2008″ by William Taylor.

By: Hounslow

Hounslow — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:55:54 +0000

I agree Chaz, an in-depth interview with Newey would be very interesting.
Congrats to Keith for an interesting article, but huge congrats to K for spotting the corealation.

By: Adam Milleneuve

Adam Milleneuve — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:24:09 +0000

I completely agree Arthur, although Mclaren have the resources to sort themselves out they don’t seem too hot in testing.

I hope that Williams can make an impression on the podium this year and would love to Lewis *have* to fight for good results more than he did last year, – that will make or break him in the “is he really a good driver” debate.

Bring on Melbourne!