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Uhnn.... I won't keep going on after this post, as I can clearly see we have vastly different opinions and this could turn ugly. Just a few replies:
The acceptability of ramming people and suchlike was started by Senna and Schumacher took it to another level.
Not true. Prost rammed Senna the year before Senna returned the favour back; in fact, Senna stated even before the race that, should the occasion come, it would have been payback time for Prost. Besides, these were hardly the first or only two "questionable" racing accidents ever to appear in F1. Coulthard willingly slowing in the middle of the trajectory in full rain and with greatly limited visibility at Spa, costing Michael the race and, in the end, the championship, immediately comes to mind.
1994
Rams Damon Hill to take Title after terminally damaging own car
While this is probably true (we'd need to know the drivers' thoughts), all Hill had to do was wait for the next turn. Hill set up the accident situation himself and Michael gladly obliged.
2004/5
Pushes Alonso onto grass at 200mph at Silverstone
When racing for position, slamming the door shut is a totally fair maneuver, IMHO. No different than HUNDREDS of other occasions. Michael himself has been subjected to it a few times, with the most recent example being Raikkonen in the last race.
As a related remark, I do not like the "sissification" of F1, where drivers are actually supposed to drive like they are 18-years old in driving school. Some of the legendary duels of the past (like Arnoux-Villeneuve, France '79) would be probably deemed illegal under today's rules. Bah.
2006
Parks across track in Monaco qualifying - tries to make out he lost control of car at 15mph
Utterly asinine and patethic decision by the FIA which basically ran a trial of intentions, putting Michael in the untenable position of having to demonstrate he was not guilty and his mistake was not intentional, which is, of course, impossible. Simply ridiculous. If the FIA does not want a single mistake affecting all of the drivers, they need to change the qualfying format. As it stands, with the Monaco decision, the FIA can punish any driver which commits a mistake which the FIA itself deems "intentional".
Also he seems to be strangely involved a lot with illegal cars - he has been disqualified/had illegal car in 1990(f3), 1994, 1999 and 2006
I don't have a clue about F3; I already conceded 1994, but I have no idea what you're talking about regarding 1999 and 2006. If you're referring to flexi wings, then by the same token Alonso and Renault should be disqualified for the mass damper (which is actually much worse since they used it for most of the season, while the wings were accepted and subequently banned within two races, if memory serves). Otherwise I've no clue.
Same goes for 1999. Oh wait... do you refer to the perfectly legal aeros which were mismeasured by the FIA technical delegate tipped off by McLaren, who measured them in the wrong way immediately after the race, disqualified the Ferraris, and was subsequently ridiculed in front of the appeal court, when it was shown that they were well within tolerance parameters, and he even admitted that he'd never even thought about checking them without the little birdie singing the song?
In any case, attributing this to Michael is unreasonable, IMO.
I take it that you take for a fact the English media recollection of those events. I can assure you, the italian media depicted those same events in quite a different way...
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