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[karlth]

I've been trying to finish a piece on Schumacher's entry into F1 for some time now. When I was searching the Internet for information I came upon a post on the Usenet from 1991, not remarkable or anything just an interesting story:

During the ESPN broadcast, someone mentioned that some of the drivers felt
that Schumacher was arrogant, but they never followed up on this. Apparently
this might have stemmed from his incident with Derek Warwick at the previous
weekend's Group C race at the Nurburgring. Schumacher was on a hot lap dur-
ing qualifying and was accidently balked by Warwick. He responded by chopping
the Jaguar's nose (Danny Sullivan on Ribbs style) intentionally and causing
damage to both cars. Later, Warwick chased Schumacher down and when he
caught up with him, Schumacher refused to apologize.

In an interview in last Thursday's AutoSport, Warwick said the only thing that
kept him from taking Schumacher's head off, was when he looked at him, he just
saw a kid, he saw his late brother Paul (or something to that affect). It was
quite a moving interview.

Anyway, Schumacher is an exciting driver and let's hope he grows up. It would
be great to see Schumacher fill the void left by Bellof.

[McRonalds]

Interesting story. Maybe a nice addition to this one - one of my favourite threads:

www.atlasf1.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33581

[holiday]

Originally posted by karlth
When I was searching the Internet for information I came upon a post on the Usenet from 1991,

What's that? Is there actually a source on the internet covering f1 stories from 1991 or so??

[karlth]

Originally posted by holiday


What's that? Is there actually a source on the internet covering f1 stories from 1991 or so??

There are occasional F1 stories in the Usenet archives (google.com for example), not much but a few.

[holiday]

Originally posted by karlth


There are occasional F1 stories in the Usenet archives (google.com for example), not much but a few.

Yes, but what is "usenet" exactly? Another name for search engines like google.com?

[Vitesse2]

Originally posted by holiday


Yes, but what is "usenet" exactly? Another name for search engines like google.com?

Usenet is what Google and Yahoo classify under "groups" when you do a search - special interest groups, usually e-mail based.

[karlth]

Originally posted by holiday
Yes, but what is "usenet" exactly? Another name for search engines like google.com?

The Usenet is one of the oldest services on the Internet, much older than the Web and nearly as old as EMail. It is like a massive bulletin board which Dejanews(now Google) archived.

[se7en_24]

You can find a lot of postings of interest, terrible looking back at posts from Imola 1994.

[ghinzani]

Originally posted by karlth


Anyway, Schumacher is an exciting driver and let's hope he grows up. It would
be great to see Schumacher fill the void left by Bellof.[/i]

Shame that he didnt then.... he isnt fit to be mentioned in the same breathe as Stefan.