If Senna would have never died..
How much more successful would have his career been? Would he have denied any of Shumacher's 7 World Titles?
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How much more successful would have his career been? Would he have denied any of Shumacher's 7 World Titles?
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Just my personal opinion :
1994 would have been Schumacher's year, Hill only got close because of Schumacher's race bans and reliability issues. Cannot see Schumacher taking the "micheal" out of Senna the way he did with Hill, therefore no bans!! Williams took too long to catch up technically, although you could argue that if Senna hadn't of crashed things would have moved on a lot quicker, Hill had only 1 full season of racing at that point, but he was regarded a good tester, so who knows...............
I do believe Schumacher would of won Imola 94 as well if they had both got to the finish.
1995-1997 would have gone to Senna if he had stayed at Williams, easily the best car of the entire F1 field for 3 full seasons, but I believe he would have gone to Ferrari like Schumacher did, not together obviously!!
I think the 1995 season would of been an epic one, I think most people will say that Senna would of run away with the title, but Schumacher was awesome that year, Senna would of been 35 years old and been relying more on his experience rather than raw speed, but being the massive Senna fan that I am, of course he would have won in the end!!!
So in answer to your question, only 1 more title, 1995, then off to Ferrari, then retirement.
"Would had gone to Ferrari..."
Have you not thought Ross Brawn, Rory Bryne, Nigel Steney amongst many others were Benetton employees Schumacher took with him when he left for Ferrari.
So there would had been not a way Senna would had joined as they were a still past it's prime team with the biggest budget and were scraping the odd wins.
Niki actually tried to pursade him to join Ferrari before he went to Williams...a conversation between Senna and Lauda? Now there's something I'd like to see in film!
shareSenna was actually talking to Ferrari before Imola,, they knew he was not happy and was trying to get him in the car for 1995. Again this is just my opinion but as I stated before, I think he would have won the title in 1995 with Williams, (he would have honoured his 2 year Williams contract), then gone to Ferrari in 1996, maybe Schumacher would have taken the vacant seat left at Williams? (Renault connection). As for Schumacher taking Ross Brawn, Rory Byrne, Nigel Stepney, they would have gone with Senna to Ferrari if Ferrari has asked them, lets face it, who wouldn't!!! Stepney had already worked with Senna when they were both with Lotus and was in awe of him. You have to remember Senna was still the man in F1 at this time, look at his 1993 season, regarded by many (not me) as his finest year in the sport.
Ask any Formula 1 driver and they will all say they would want to drive for Ferrari at some point in there career, Senna was no different, that is fact.
I believe Vettel will replace Alonso at Ferrari when he hangs up his helmet, even if its a pig of a car Alonso vacates. He will go because its Ferrari.
Just my opinions.........
I think Senna would have added to a few more titles such as the one Damon Hill won.
Its that man again!!
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Sadly we will never know, but I would have loved to have seen the battles. I would like to believe that Senna would have taken a few more titles.
shareHe is the goat so another few years active would have allowed him to trounce every other mortal
shareSchumacher may have very well have been relegated to a footnote for being a cheater if Senna had not died. The Benetton that Schumacher was driving had illegal traction control on the car. The FIA investigated the car and their investigation even proved the computer control existed, it was buried in the computer as option 13. Benetton claimed that it was only for testing and could not be accessed by the driver, only from a mechanic connecting to the car with a laptop... however it was later reveiled that the control could be engaged by a series of button and gear leaver pushes... However because Senna and Ratzenberger had died the sport couldn't afford any further bad PR so they later decided that they couldn't prove that Benetton used the software so they didn't ban them. Flash forward to later years when BAR/Honda had an illegal fuel tank and the FIA didn't listen to their excuse that it was inadvertent and wasn't actually used in the race and they were hit hard... Now add to this other facts that have come to light, such as the team manager of Benetton being banned from F1 for asking a driver to crash on purpose to manipulate the field, and Schumacher parking his car in the road to try and keep another driver from bumping him from Pole position.... or Schumacher purposefully crashing into another driver (multiple times) and you quickly understand that Schumacher was a creation of F1 to give them a hero from a turd for marketing purposes.
Odds are that baring Senna's death Benetton would have been banned and Schumacher disgraced.... whether Senna would have won any other WDCs is speculation as you never knew when the FIA would change the rules to completely change the fortunes of a team.
Schumacher may have very well have been relegated to a footnote for being a cheater if Senna had not died.