Flavio Briatore seems to think that Michael Schumacher's World titles carry more weight than Lewis Hamilton's as the German had tougher competition. This season, when it starts, Hamilton will be chasing a record-equalling seventh Drivers' Championship title. Only one other person in F1 history has achieved that: Schumacher. He won back-to-back titles in 1994 and '95 with Benetton before putting in a streak of five successive titles from 2000 to 2004 with Ferrari. Schumacher held off Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen, David Coulthard, Rubens Barrichello and Kimi Raikkonen to win his titles while in his first few seasons in F1 he was up against the likes of Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell. That,...
Full Story »