Fernando Alonso: 'Previously, in all my career and different categories, my rivals had some bad days and those were the days when you would capitalise – you would score many more points than them. 'With Michael, that didn’t happen.' F1
Fernando Alonso has long spoken of his admiration for Michael Schumacher, and he feels what set the German apart from the rest is that he “didn’t have bad days.”
Alonso became the sport’s youngest ever World Champion when he ended Schumacher’s dominant streak of five titles in a row in the 2005 season, with Ferrari uncompetitive and knocked from the perch upon which they and Schumacher had controlled the sport from the front for several years. Schumacher and the Scuderia roared back against Alonso and Renault the following year, setting up a tight finale as the young protegé and the sport’s master did battle for glory again in 2006, with the Spaniard just about coming out on top before Schumacher retired from Formula 1 for the first time.
While he returned to lesser success with a Mercedes team which ran predominantly in the upper midfield from 2010-12, Alonso has continually cited the 91-time race winner as someone who commands a higher degree of respect when talking about fellow drivers in Formula 1. Having overtaken Kimi Raikkonen to now sit atop the rankings for all-time race starts in the sport, Alonso has raced against a wide range of drivers in his illustrious career, and in a wide-ranging interview with the official Aston Martin website, he said Schumacher’s “determination” and consistency is what allowed him to limit the damage he faced on his worst days, which in turn powered him to the success he achieved.
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