Ayrton Senna vs Michael Schumacher if Senna hadn't been killed

Maybe they are just responding to questions or maybe they just want attention, but if you go on any F1 website it seems like every day you get headline such as:-

Berger: 'This will be Schumacher's final season'

Lauda: 'Hamilton is dangerous and needs to sort his head out'

Stewart: 'Alonso will win more titles'

Mansell: 'Vettel can beat Schumacher's records'

Prost: 'Schumacher is past it'

Watson: 'Schumacher will win again'

Etc, etc, etc. I mean, who even asked for their opinions? Unless journalists were simply talking to them and their comments were taken out of context and turned into 'headline news' for F1 websites, etc.

That why Graham and Damon Hill are champions then?

Disagree. I personally wouldn't include some drivers who have won championships in my greatest drivers list. I wouldn't include Jacques Villeneuve or Keke Rosberg for example. In addition, Stirling was a more rounded driver and raced more than just F1 cars (Rallying, Sports cars etc).

Just because a driver didn't win a title in Formula one, doesn't mean that he was crap in any sense.

Damon Hill a gentleman? OK what about Japan 1998 .

What on earth does that have to do with anything?

Damon Hill a gentleman? OK what about Japan 1998 .

Japan 1998? You mean when Shumacher couldn't pass him on the road and then passed Frentzen in the final chicane on the final lap?

To add to this thread....I recently saw a painting depicting the scenes of 'what if' Senna had survived the crash and been able to climb out of the wreckage of the Williams FW16 unharmed, and a model showing the scene of 'what if' he'd won the San Marino race and how he'd have looked climbing out of the car in Parc ferme afterwards (since he had planned to wave an Austrian flag in tribute to Roland Ratzenberger, who died in qualifying that weekend).

Here is the painting....



And here is the model....

http://gpma.org/f106d-el.html







If only either of these scenarios could've been true....(preferably him winning the race). I get a very eerie feeling looking at these pics, though.

Schumacher couldn't pass him? Oh you mean Hill, doing everything he could to hold Schumacher up from salvaging any chance of winning the championship, after ignoring Jordan's calls to move over (IIRC)?

Schumacher was actually 3rd before his tyre blew up FYI.

Any proof that Eddie Jordan told Hill to move over at any point?

Would be interesting to get lists of our Top 5 of all time going

I remember reading about it, on Autosport forums.

Also if you need further proof that he isn't a 100% gentleman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxu8LIzeNHY

He is a gentleman but not as much as you guys are making out! Although he and Schum seem pretty cool nowadays though.

That's from 1997. You said that he did that in 1998.

I feel that you are getting desperate in your argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRveUU6Fig

Let me guess, wasn't Hill's fault?

Silverstone was Hills fault no question.

Monza was more 50/50.

50/50?

Schumacher is infront, Hill brakes late and takes the guy INFRONT off the track. How is that 50/50? Schumacher played no part in that: Hill is aggressor.

50/50 because it is well documented that people thought Shumacher was brake testing him. If I'm not mistaken, Shumacher got a suspended 1 race ban for that. I not aquitting Hill of any blame either. If you're going to take the moral high ground here, Shumacher has done far worse far more often than whatever Hill did at the time.