Formula 1: Despite a record hunt: Lewis Hamilton bows to Michael Schumacher

Interlagos –

As a five-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton (33) travels to Brazil for the penultimate round of the world championship (Sunday, 6:10 pm, RTL). And the hungry Briton is far from satiated.

At Interlagos, he wants to win the team title for Mercedes (55 points ahead of Ferrari) with a tenth win of the perfect season. Hamilton: "It would mean the world to me."

And in the next two years, he wants to beat the record of Michael Schumacher (49 years old).

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With 7: 5 titles and 91: 71 wins, Schumi is still at the top of the two most important rankings. But in pole position, Hamilton has already pbaded (81:68).

Michael Schumacher stumbles from the throne

And with two other titles, each with ten wins of the season, he was finally going to drop the 2020 record holder from the throne. In the superiority of his Mercedes – especially in the second half of the season – quite possible.

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"The number of Michael's wins is still so far, but if it continues to work well until the end of my contract, I should at least get close to it," says Hamilton. Discs are not important, but in the end, I want to be considered one of the best. "

"Fangio was like a godfather"

The son-son's son of the province is proud to have already caught the legend Juan Manuel Fangio (84): "Fangio was like a godfather."

But before Schumi Hamilton sinks down squarely. "Michael was just a genius, what he did with Ferrari and what he did – I'll always be a fan of him," says the Brit. "It's the best of times."

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Lewis Hamilton remembers the first Schumi meeting

With bright eyes, Hamilton remembers his first encounter with Schumi at the 2001 Karpen World Karting Championships: "I drove like a young boy with Nico Rosberg into the Mercedes-McLaren team. Kerpen on Michael's National Trail After a wet run, I parked behind him at Parc Fermé, I do not know if he came to see me or me, but we started talking. we talked like two regular race colleagues. "

After Schumis' return, Hamilton was generally faster

In his first Formula 1 test in 2006, Schumi felt even more surreal in front of him on the track: "Suddenly, he accelerated and left." After returning to the lame Mercedes in 2010, Hamilton was almost always faster.

And in 2013, 69-year-old Niki Lauda also gave him the Silver Arrow made faster by Schumi and was hostile to some fans.

But Lewis says, "I keep only the best memories when I think of Michael and we want to see him someday."

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