Auf Wiedersehen Schumacher

F1 legend Michael Schumacher, who plans to retire for good from the motorsport at the end of the current season, has achieved incredible heights. We look back on some of the memorable moments of his illustrious career.

Schumacher, who will leave Mercedes after the last Grand Prix of the year in Brazil on the 25^th of November, started his career in Belgium at the Spa race track in 1991 driving for Benetton at the time.

Following his maiden race, he went on to race for 20 years in which he became a legend, he returned from retirement in 2009 to race for Mercedes but his second stint on the circuit didn’t have quite the success of the first.

The iconic German who achieved feats nobody else had managed, he won five consecutive world championships and won 91 Grand Prix’s which is unmatched achievement.

His ability to drive flat-out without fault for entire seasons made him a ruthless opponent. Schumacher’s career was not without controversies as he seemed to drive without remorse.

He won his first world championship in Australia 1994 after he crashed into Damon Hill who he had supposedly driven into deliberately to stop him passing his Bennetton car.

Schumacher joined Ferrari in 1995 and here he had his biggest success. Winning the world championship in his debut season for Ferrari it took a further five years to get another.

In 1997 the title went close with Williams driver, Jacques Villeneuve but the German was disqualified from the entire campaign as he once again used his car as a tool to beat opposition, after being found guilty of barging a rival off the track.

From the year 2000 he won the championship every year until 2004 with the Ferrari team achieving incredible new abilities from an F1 car.

His retirement in 2006 left Schumacher with little do to and decided to return three years later and after one podium finish in that time he called it a day after Mercedes decided to sign Lewis Hamilton from McLaren.

The talented and controversial German will forever be remembered in F1.

By Peter Howard.

@pierrehowardo