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Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis ...
is a German former racing driver who won seven
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. Schumacher entered Formula One with the
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racing team in , qualifying seventh in his debut race at the . Following this race, he was signed by Benetton for the rest of the season. His first Grand Prix win came the following year at the same venue as his debut race. Schumacher won his first Formula One World Championship in , a season in which he won eight races. His victory was controversial, as he was involved in a collision with fellow championship contender
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at the final race in
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. Both drivers had to retire their cars which resulted in Schumacher securing the championship. He won his second championship the following year, winning nine races, and became the youngest double world champion at the time. Schumacher joined
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in . He finished third in the championship, winning three races, in a season dominated by the Williams team. His victory at the , which Schumacher won by 45 seconds, is noted as one of the greatest Formula One wet weather drives. In the season, Schumacher won five races but was disqualified from the championship after the
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concluded that he had deliberately collided with
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, his championship rival, at the in
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. The following year, he won six races. Schumacher won his third world championship in ; the first for a Ferrari driver since . He followed this with four consecutive championships from to . During the 2001 season, at the , Schumacher won his 52nd Grand Prix, breaking
Alain Prost Alain Marie Pascal Prost (; born 24 February 1955) is a French retired racing driver and Formula One team owner. A four-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, from 1987 until 2001 he held the record for most Grand Prix victories until Micha ...
's record for the most career Grand Prix wins. His season, in which he was on the podium in every race, included eleven race victories. The latter broke the record for the most wins in a single season. Schumacher surpassed this with thirteen race victories in 2004. His final Grand Prix win was at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix; at the end of that season he retired from Formula One. He came out of retirement and made a return to Formula One racing with Mercedes between and , this did not result in any further victories. Schumacher is currently the second-highest overall Formula One Grand Prix winner, having won 91 races from 306 Grand Prix starts in his career; the majority of his race victories were for the Ferrari team with 72. His most successful circuit was
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where he won eight times in his career. Schumacher's largest margin of victory was at the 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix, a race in which he lapped the field, and the smallest margin of victory was at the 2000 Canadian Grand Prix when he beat teammate
Rubens Barrichello Rubens "Rubinho" Gonçalves Barrichello (, ; born 23 May 1972) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who competed in Formula One between and . He currently competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 111 T ...
by 0.174 seconds.


Wins

Key: * No. – Victory number; for example, "1" signifies Schumacher's first race win. * Race – Grand prix entries number in Schumacher's Formula One career; for example "36" signifies Schumacher's 36th Formula One grand prix entries. * Grid – The position on the
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from which Schumacher started the race. * Margin – Margin of victory, given in the format of minutes:seconds.milliseconds * – Driver's Championship winning season.


Number of wins at different Grands Prix


Number of wins at different circuits


See also

* List of Formula One Grand Prix winners


Notes


References


External links


Drivers: Hall of Fame: Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher: Involvement
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