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Michael's lows
Silverstone 1994: Schu gets the black flag
The first example of the type of controversy that dogged his career. After overtaking pole man Damon Hill on the parade lap, the German didn't come in for a penalty and was shown the black flag.
A disqualification followed , as did a contentious second half of the season...
Jerez 1997: The wrong sort of history
Some gave him the benefit of the doubt after title-deciding shunt with Hill in '94, but the German was afforded no such luxury this time.
His attempt to ram Jacques Villeneuve failed but he still became the first man to be disqualifed from the F1 final standings.
Silverstone 1999: A broken leg at Silverstone
Looking to make it third time lucky in his bid to claim the title for Ferrari, he is out of contention by mid-season after he breaks his leg in a high-speed crash into the tyre wall at Stowe corner.
He misses the next six races and a shot at the world championship.
Austria 2002: Team orders outrage
A major own goal from Ferrari which was condemned far and wide.
Dominating 2002, the Italian squad instructed race leader Barrichello to pull over for his team leader and gift him the win in sight of the flag. If that wasn't bad enough the drivers are roundly booed on the podium by the Austrian fans.
Monaco 2006: Michael under attack
Michael probably thought things couldn't get worse than Jerez '97 but they might just have done here.
He takes a verbal pounding from fellow drivers, former champions and just about the whole paddock after 'parking' his Ferrari at the Rascasse in the dying moments of qualifying. The stewards strip him of pole and send him to the back of the grid.
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here is also of course, the darker side to Schumacher’s racing genius.
His willingness to punch below the belt is something that sits oddly with his prowess as a driver.
He got away with it a few times in his early career, the first really high profile occasion being when he deliberately drove Damon Hill off the road in Adelaide to clinch the 1994 drivers’ world title, many wondered why he felt he needed to do such things as clearly he was a vastly superior driver.
But it seemed as though he panicked under pressure and lashed out. So desperate was his desire to win, he could not accept that he had made a mistake that would lead to him coming second.
Schumacher came of age as a driver when the sport was ruled by hard men like Senna and Prost, who had a history of committing professional fouls on each other.
He thought that this was how things were done. He got away with it in 1994, but when he tried it again on Jacques Villeneuve at Jerez in 1997, the world had moved on and he was crucified.
He remains the only driver to be disqualified from a championship for unsportsmanlike behaviour. It is a stain on his record and on his character.
As was Monaco this year, where he was found guilty by the race stewards of deliberately parking his car on the racing line during qualifying, to stop Alonso from beating him to pole position.
I was quite shocked by that.
Knowing that in all probability it was his final season in F1, it seemed an odd moment for him to remind everyone of the bad things he has done in his otherwise exceptional career.
But again it was a case of, having made a mistake, lashing out to stop the other man from beating him. Now the older driver, Schumacher was raging against the dying of the light, desperate to stop Alonso, in many ways a younger version of himself, from beating him.
The legacy
It is hard for you and I and even his fellow drivers to understand the mentality of a great champion like Schumacher. They see the world differently. My insight into it comes principally from something Nigel Mansell told me about Senna.
On the podium in Budapest in 1992, when Mansell had finally won the world championship, Senna came up to him and said, ‘Well done Nigel. Now you understand why I am such a bastard. It is because I never want anyone else to have the feeling that you have now.’
Mansell said it made his blood run cold when he heard that. He was a sportsman, a racer, but not cut from the same cloth as Senna and Schumacher.
This then is the enigma that was Michael Schumacher the racing driver.
An exceptional driver, a great leader and a ferocious competitor, who has given the sport so many great moments, but also some darker ones.
Will history revere his amazing record or judge him harshly for his treachery? I think the former. But one thing is for sure; the sport will be very different next year without him.
