Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1
Titolo: [ENG] La maledizione di Schumacher a Silverstone, secondo Eddie Irvine.

Jaguar driver Eddie Irvine has admitted that when his Ferrari teammate
Michael Schumacher broke his leg in a crash at the 1999 British Grand Prix,
it was the happiest moment of his life! The controversial Ulsterman claimed
any other driver would have replicated his reaction as it opened the way for
him to challenge for the title with the championship winning driver out of
the way.
"Michael Schumacher claims the Silverstone crash which broke his leg still
haunts him... for me it was the happiest moment of my career," he told the
Sun. "Once the team had told me he was okay I remember sitting in the car
trying to contain my joy at his misfortune because it meant I would be able
to challenge for the world crown (he went on to finish runner-up to Mika
Hakkinen)."
Irvine, who is now with the struggling Jaguar outfit, even claimed that
Schumacher had only himself to blame for the crash..
"There's little doubt that had Michael not had his crash he would have won
the title that year - but he only has himself to blame. Everybody thinks
that brake failure was responsible for the incident but I would like to put
the record straight and record how the scenario really unfolded. I was
really energised for the race because the car was doing great but I was also
really hacked off with Michael."
"He had been quoted as saying that I had only helped him a couple of times
when the truth was that I had moved over for him several times without the
team even asking me. I felt his comments were ungracious so when I flew past
him at the start I decided to brake so late going into the corner that there
would be no way he could come by me without sliding wide. He braked, locked
up, came off the brakes and then tried to sweep by me."
"But then he had to brake again when he realised he wasn't going to make it
and that's when a nipple in the brakes snapped and sent him straight into
the tyre wall."
However Irvine said his attitude was no different to those of the other
drivers on the circuit if they had had a shout at the title should their
senior teammate have suffered an accident.
"Before anyone accuses me of being callous let's put something straight.
There is not a driver in the pit lane who wouldn't rejoice at someone else's
grief if it was going to benefit them. Formula One racers are all totally
selfish because if they didn't think me, me, me they would just be trodden
into the ground. I have always said that Formula One is a war and it really
is."
Irvine said his claims were supported by what happened after the Brazilian
legend Ayrton Senna - who had punched the Ulsterman after the 1993 Japanese
Grand Prix because he felt Irvine had been disrespectful in not moving over
to let him through - was killed at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994.
"Take Ayrton Senna's tragic death in 1994. It was a frightening reminder
what can happen to even the finest driver in the world. But it didn't stop
several racers from phoning Frank Williams (for whom Senna was driving) the
following day asking for the chance to take Ayrton's place in the team.
There's a fine line between showing respect for such an appalling incident
or missing a golden opportunity for a top drive."
However Irvine does admit that despite feeling at Silverstone that
Schumacher's misfortune had given him a clear shot at the title he also lost
it there the same day.
"I overshot the mark when I made my first pit stop and that allowed David
Coulthard to win the race while I had to settle for second. So you could say
Silverstone was the place where I had the chance of winning the
championship - and also the arena where I lost it."

molto interessante, ma...ci puoi dare la fonte di questo articolo
mi pare molto improbabile che EI faccia dichiarazioni di questo tipo
perdendo molte simpatie in tutto il mondo....

 perdendo molte simpatie in tutto il mondo....
sì certo ... il sito è il solito : 
http://f1.racing-live.com/en/index.html
La notizia è tra quelle precedenti il GP , data 6/7 , e non mi sembra sia
comparso nella sezione italiana. Nello stesso sito c'era un articolo in cui
EI affermava di essere d'accordo con Hill sul fatto che MS potrebbe
abbandonare la ferrari e/o la f1 (cosa alla quale non credo).
Comunque la mia impressione è che ,non appena Eddie si ritirerà dal mondo
della F1 ,racconterà molte altre cose del genere.

 perdendo molte simpatie in tutto il mondo....
Perché "perdendo"?
-- 
Alessio F. Bragadini		
ale...@sevenseas.org
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." -- Bluto

 Perché "perdendo"?
Perchè è da bastardo gioire se uno si fa male.
In ogni caso .........
Ciao
Tillo

Perchè è da bastardo gioire se uno si fa male.
Non direi. Rileggiti bene il discorso...
Obelix

perdendo molte simpatie in tutto il mondo....
Anzi, direi che ne guadagna....
Obelix