A Tribute to Michael Schumacher

A little off-topic, but then too important to be just left away, more so considering the fact that i am not a fan of ferrari at all and schumacher was a brilliant racer for me and not a brilliant sportsman, but still it would be foolishness to not recognize his accomplishments.
back when i just started running on my own (1991), there was a man in the paddocks, an unknown name then (which is hard to imagine), looking to race the zenith of perfection (formula 1 race car) for the first time in his career, a career, in which he almost became synonymous with scuderia ferrarri and to some extent formula 1, a feat which has been repeated only twice in the history (mansell and senna).

It takes the balls of the size of a durian fruit, to leave an established team (benetton) to join a team whose last championship was 2 decades back (ferrari), but the man did exactly that in the mid ninties.

The benetton driving schumi showed us the sportsman he was, who was, unfortunately killed in his ferrari days to accommodate a pure racer, but a genius none the less. Had he not walked the limits of moral values and fell on the wrong side so often in the recent past, he would have easily been regarded as the greatest sportsman the world has ever seen anywhere and not just in f1.

When you are past 35, and with just 3 races remaining in your last season, you are just 2 points away from the lead, it clearly shows that you are a man possessed. Possessed with skills to entertain and amaze humanity for ever.

There are few rows in the Record book register, that this man can't claim to have ruled at one point or another. He is to Formula 1 what maradona is to football, a genius of the game while also being the most controversial player at the same time. He is the same man who has given the sport some of the most beautiful and shamefull moments in it's history.

No words can possibly do justice to his skills (He wasn't called a rain-God for no reason), Like him or not, he will always remain one of the most important player in the logbooks of this game.

I salute you Mr. Schumi.