I approached the corner in a totaly different and awkward way and it just happened to work. With the speed the corner is taken the front wing's aerodinamic pressure is minimum, no difference of the angle that cuts the turn.
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About 15 seconds into the video, Schumacher had that slide, the reason I liked this pole alot, is it looked like a mistake, but Michael usually in his career at times locks up when he's on the real limit, in some of his best drives, and has moments, but still keeps the speed and momentum rolling, he was literally on it that weekend, on fire, and then in the race he was on fire in the pits.
Normally pole positions are crisp fast and sometimes on the edge ragged, but online, but what made this pole cool, was likely Michael's set up comprimises to get the best out of the car, as that 2003ga was mixed beast on some tracks, especially in the slower corners, but Michael maximised what he could, I thought this was one of his great poles, plus with the pressure of one lap quali as well at the time as well, and ferrari and he needed the results after the string of bad races at the start, Kimi put in a great lap too, so MS was especially estatic in getting this pole, he knew he did the best job on the day.
I remember Bahrain 2004 as well, whether Michael set up his cars for specific corners, and made comprises in others, he locked up it seemed, and carried speed in, and I thought he has lost it, but he did some great recovery sectors in the rest of the lap, there's something to be said of recovery sectors, and hooking up those sectors, that was another good pole I remember.
