originally posted by TheFazz on my-kart.org:

The F1 career of the most successful formula one driver of all time is about to come to a close this sunday. Much as i hate the guy's guts, i must say that Michael Schumacher has been the closest you will ever get to a perfect formula one driver. Fast, fit, aggressive, technical, analytical, smart, strong teamplayer, good pr - everything a modern day f1 driver should be. And this shows in the monumental statistics accumulated by the man. He has just about broken every f1 numbers record apart from the most race starts (IIRC, just 6 shy of Ricardo Patrese's 256 starts).