That year’s Chinese Grand Prix marked his 91st career Formula 1 victory and surely firmly cemented the seven-time world champion as the de-facto greatest of all time.
Except it didn’t. Schumacher retired at the end of that season – although he would return with Mercedes for three further (rather fruitless) campaigns – having laid down the gauntlet safe in the knowledge that few, if any, would ever match, let alone topple, his records.
Lewis Hamilton arrived on the grand prix grid just a year later and, despite a few rocky years toward the end of his McLaren career, has enjoyed the most dominant period in the championship’s history since joining the Mercedes F1 Team, recording seven world titles, 103 victories and 103 pole positions so far.
Those are scary numbers. Especially when you consider that two of F1’s other greats, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, hold a combined total of 92 wins between them, despite their total domination during the late 1980s-early 1990s.
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