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This really was pretty crazy...
A couple of years old, but the Schumacher documentary on Netflix is pretty good. Watching kids race go-karts with the fuel tank strapped between their legs is wild.
The show humanizes Schumacher and I don't have the feeling it is out of sympathy for his current condition. Well done and worth your time if you're into racing history.
The show humanizes Schumacher and I don't have the feeling it is out of sympathy for his current condition. Well done and worth your time if you're into racing history.
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Schumacher's story is wild. All those years dominating racing and boom! Skiing accident mostly does him in. There isn't much out there about his current state because the family has done a fantastic job of maintaining his privacy. Kudos. I am a fan, so I dont need to see him with a drool cup. I would rather just remember what a great show he put on on the racetrack for a lot of years.
I'm not quite to the end so I don't know how they will portray that portion of his life. I'm up to his rainy collision with Coulthard. The portrayal of Schumacher's first title was that of Michael deliberately turning in on Hill; Hill's still bitter. it also glossed over Hill's championship in 96 but covered 97 with that butthole Villeneuve, so it sounds like there's some bad blood between Hill and Schumacher. Deliberate? I can't imagine launching himself into the air and hoping he damaged Hill's car enough for both to DNF unless he thought his car was mortally wounded or Hill would take the win and championship. The latter makes sense.
I didn't know that Michael's first few seasons at Ferrari were bad, really bad. The show covered the hours he put in working to fix the car, testing from sunrise to sunset, staying late with a few mechanics to work on the car, etc. If true, kudos to him for that one.
Back to him as a person, when you have guys like Mark Webber, Brawn, Coulthard, and that stain on racing and humanity Briatore all talking about what a genuinely human and nice guy Schumacher is/ was...and Mark Webber? Michael must have been a good dude off the track because Webber isn't the warmest of personalities.
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As an aside, one thing I love about these "older" stories is the reminder that you could once make it to F1 without today's cookie cutter path. A great driver like Schumacher kind of had Scotty beam him down to the grid. Today's drivers have an almost locked in path not unlike military officers punching their tickets. Spend x years in karts, y years stepping up to F3, then F2, then F1 with stops in lesser series in between. Picked up as a developmental driver in F3/ F2 otherwise you have ZERO chance at an F1 car, all very different from even 20 years ago.
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I Googled and only see it on Netflix. That said you might be able to rent/ PPV it from another service like Amazon Prime or whatever.
Nicky Haden - Hit by a car cycling
Ken Block - Snow Mobile accident
Felix Baumgartner - Got sick while paragliding
It's wild sometimes. Travis Pastrana will get taken out by the common cold.
Of the people I know from my skydiving days, over half were killed by life, not the sport. Victims of drunk driving, suicide, medical, etc.
I finished the Schumacher doco last night. Very well done, especially how they handled the accident and subsequent events. I thought the best quote on that come from his wife Corrina: Michael protected us and now we are protecting Michael.
There was enough family footage and comments by other drivers to make me believe he was indeed a dick on the track, but a genuinely good person when not racing. He was hypercompetitive, not unlike other greats in their discipline.
There was enough family footage and comments by other drivers to make me believe he was indeed a dick on the track, but a genuinely good person when not racing. He was hypercompetitive, not unlike other greats in their discipline.
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