Hamilton pays tribute to Schumacher: “Will always remain the greatest”

This is what the 33-year-old Brit told Bild am Sonntag about the record champion of the premier class, who turns 3 on Thursday (January 50rd).

Hamilton, who has dominated Formula 2014 with Mercedes almost at will since 1 and has since won four world championship titles, already took the record for the most pole positions from Schumacher in the summer of 2017. Schumacher's marks of seven world titles and 91 Grand Prix successes, which are considered inviolable, could at least be equalized by the end of Hamilton's Mercedes contract in 2020. Hamilton has five world championship titles and 73 race victories. However, he “doesn’t think like that,” Hamilton explained: “I just don’t feel like I have to try to break his records. That’s not what drives me.”

Hamilton further confessed that he had admired the racing driver Schumacher since his childhood: “Personally, I remember that I always used him as the driver in my racing games on the console when I was young.”

Sharing a race track with Schumacher for the first time “just felt unreal,” said Hamilton, referring to test drives for McLaren in 2006, shortly before his promotion to Formula 1 regular driver: “I didn’t even try to overtake him ", I just followed him because right before that I was playing as Michael Schumacher in my computer game."

On the sidelines of Schumacher's last race in Abu Dhabi in 2012, he swapped helmets with Hamilton, who took over the Kerpen driver's cockpit at Mercedes the following season: “That's always a sign of mutual respect. Michael was an absolute leader here. He was part of laying the foundation for the success we enjoy today.”

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Hamilton pays tribute to Schumacher: “Will always remain the greatest”

For the reigning Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher will “always remain the greatest of all time” regardless of statistical records.

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