In saying so, Ralf Schumacher questions how long Max Verstappen will stay in the sport, given the extreme sacrifices needed to stay at the top. The Dutchman has already come out and said that he doesn’t want to race for another 10 years, perhaps showing signs of early retirement.
As per Ralf, Michael Schumacher changed F1’s party culture, streamlining the sport to one that prioritizes fitness over anything else. Ralf also claims that this extreme level of fitness required to stay in the sport, coupled with frequent travel, might discourage champions like Verstappen from staying in F1 for a lot longer.
Ralf told Sport1:
Mastermind behind Michael Schumacher’s success has retired from F1
The mastermind behind Michael Schumacher’s seven F1 world titles, Ross Brawn, retired from the sport at the end of the 2022 season. The former member of the Ferrari dream team, which included Jean Todt, Rory Byrne, and Schumacher, had been working as the F1 Managing Director.
In his column on the F1 website, Ross Brawn announced his retirement, marking the end of a storied career that spanned 46 years in the sport. He wrote:
Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn’s careers intertwined for most of the driver’s time in Formula 1. The success achieved by the German could be attributed to having a great team around him, which was more or less led by Ross Brawn in all seven titles won by Schumacher.
Brawn was the technical director at Benetton when Schumacher picked up his first two titles. It was then the dream team that helped the German clinch five more titles with Ferrari in the early 2000s. The Schumacher-Brawn-Todt combination will go down in the sport’s history as one of the best.
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