He said:. I find that's an impossible question. To say that Fangio is better than Ayrton Senna is ridiculous. I couldn't say that any one of them was better than the other unless they were driving the same car at the same time, which is impossible. This comment brings us nicely to the final problem. As Tyrrell said, we can't judge the relative quality of two drivers unless they are driving the same cars and facing the same opponents. Fangio raced front-engined, wingless cars in a t-shirt and leather cap against the likes of Stirling Moss and Alberto Ascari.
Senna drove precision-engineered racing machines against men of the calibre of Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell.
Comparing the two, or any of the other drivers commonly called the greatest, is extremely difficult unless they raced together. To some, it's impossible.
But that doesn't stop us trying. Polls on the subject are a constant presence on message boards and most F1 publications and websites have, at some stage, produced their own rankings. BBC Sport's list was created by asking their F1 team what they thought.
Senna topped the rankings, with Fangio second and Jim Clark third. The Daily Mail sports team ranked Schumacher at No. In a knockout tournament-style series of polls on F1 Fanatic resulted in a final between Senna who scored 57 percent and Schumacher who scored 43 percent. And perhaps the list to which most attention should be paid is one produced by Autosport.
He raised my game because I think that you try to be as good as the person you are with. I liked his principles - they played to my strengths. He was great, but he had good, human values. He had a few lapses in his life, but he was incredibly principled. And he was a good human being. In the beginning, we were great enemies. Michael Scumacher , who took the proverbial baton when he won the San Marino GP and the championship in — the first of his record seven — was sure that he would not have won it, had Senna been there.
Sir Jackie Stewart , who had famously questioned him about his disregard for driver safety, spoke about how he saw Senna evolve. At that time, for whatever reason, his whole mental attitude towards motor racing changed.
That was his maturity evolving from his own experiences and wisdom. He knew I had done that during my career, and if you are world champion, as he was, that carries a lot of attention in the media. If you speak, people will listen. There was no weaving, diving across the road at me or just being bloody-minded and having me off.
Damon Hill, who was his team mate at Williams, called him a game-changer who got a lot from a car than it was designed to. He changed the sport, he changed the approach. He was far more aggressive and far more committed, to the point of almost craziness. In Senna took his unimpressive Toleman from 13th place to second place in the heavy rain at the Monaco Grand Prix, closing in on Prost for first place, but the race came to an end due to safety issues regarding the heavy downpour.
Perhaps the most striking performance by Senna in the rain came in at Donington, when Senna climbed from fifth to first place in the opening lap of the race, finding grip that no other driver on the field, including Schumacher, could. He went on to lap the entire field that race! I would like to conclude this article with a statistic that may not prove that Senna was a better overall driver than Schumacher, but that definitely proves that Senna was a better qualifier than he was.
Out of career races for Michael Schumacher, he managed 68 pole positions, where as Ayrton Senna managed 65 poles in only races. Schumacher was on pole for Despite being on the same racing team, the duo was fiercely competitive and combined for one of the great rivalries in racing history.
In that time frame, the two won all but one F1 World Championships. Both have since been either tied or eclipsed. Schumacher set the record for F1 Grand Prix victories with 91, a feat later surpassed by current star Lewis Hamilton.
Schumacher also set the record for F1 series championships with seven, a marker that Hamilton has since tied.
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