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Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton shared a racetrack together for three seasons before the German retired at the end of the 2012 season.
Hamilton took his seat at Mercedes when he left and the rest, they say, is history as he went on to match Schumacher’s tally of seven Drivers’ Championships.
This year the Brit has moved to Ferrari in an attempt to clear the record for most world titles that he shares with his former German rival.
Charles Leclerc warned Hamilton he will never beat him at Ferrari but the seven-time champion will have other ideas in 2025.
Leclerc will find it difficult to handle Hamilton’s popularity this season with streets expected to be filled ahead of his first running in a Scuderia car at the Fiorano test track.
The Monagasque driver has a six-season edge in experience at the team over his new teammate, but he has faced multiple champions on the other side of the garage before and beaten them.
Michael Schumacher called Lewis Hamilton ‘not very nice’ for cheeky move
Back in his earlier days at McLaren, Hamilton was always in contention for race victories against the likes of Red Bull and Ferrari.
At the 2010 Australian Grand Prix, Schumacher was in his second race after a comeback from retirement with Mercedes, who had just won both championships in 2009.
Their car wasn’t as strong as it had been the year before when they were called Brawn, but it was good enough to compete near the front.
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In Q2 on Saturday, Hamilton got in the way of Schumacher which led to ‘not nice’ comments from the German about his rival to the media.
“I had a similar issue with Lewis, that he was adapting his lap and preparing his lap and blocking me in a way – which is not very nice,” he said.
“If you sit behind, you are trying your best, which I am doing at the moment, and then somebody slows you down, it is not very comfortable.”
Why Michael Schumacher rarely got to race Lewis Hamilton in F1
Over the next few years, Hamilton would come across Schumacher on the track very rarely as Mercedes fought to remain in contention for podiums and the odd victory.
A breakthrough came in 2012 when they won their face race since the 1950s at the Chinese Grand Prix with Nico Rosberg.
Schumacher had been in contention for the win that day too, but was let down by poor reliability and dropped out of the race following a botched pitstop.
It was his first big chance to reach the podium since returning to Formula 1 and he missed out. He finally managed it at the European Grand Prix that season, but not once more after that.
Mercedes were neither here nor there in the Schumacher years. They were a midfield team with front-running potential, which they fulfilled after he left in 2013.
It’s why he and Hamilton never got to battle that much on track, which is a shame for fans because their clashes would’ve been for the history books.
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