{"id":376697,"date":"2025-12-30T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376697\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:15:07","slug":"ralf-schumacher-names-his-ultimate-formula-1-driver-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376697\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralf Schumacher names his ultimate Formula 1 driver pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German F1 legend Ralf Schumacher has given his verdict on who he believes would be the best driver pairing of all time.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nSchumacher is the brother of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, largely considered to be one of the greatest drivers that F1 has ever seen.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe German won seven world championships &#8211; a joint record with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> &#8211; and sits second on the all-time lists of race victories, podiums and pole positions.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe&#8217;s only bettered on those lists by Lewis Hamilton, who has also won seven world championship titles.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Ralf Schumacher has suggested that Hamilton and his brother would not be the driver partnership that he would choose if he could pick any drivers past and present.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I think that would be a very healthy fight. But purely in terms of skill, they are the two best drivers I&#8217;ve seen in Formula 1.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The ability to deliver performances under pressure, to always be faster than the team-mate and to really get the best out of the car and the team, that is what distinguishes the two drivers.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen&#8217;s record-breaking numbers<\/p>\n<p>\nAt just 28 years of age, Verstappen has broken a host of all-time records in F1 already, including the number of consecutive grand prix victories, achieving 10 in a row in 2023.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe&#8217;s a four-time champion already, and narrowly missed out on a record-equalling fifth title in 2025 by just two points, despite driving an inconsistent RB21.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nVerstappen won eight races in 2025, the most of any driver, and that was despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-teams\/mclaren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a>&#8216;s overall dominance of the season.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Dutchman is third on the all-time list of race victors with 71 throughout his career so far, and is also high on the pole positions and podiums lists.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nIf he races in F1 long enough, he could well find himself challenging some of Hamilton and Schumacher&#8217;s records, which is why he is considered to be one of the greatest drivers of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German F1 legend Ralf Schumacher has given his verdict on who he believes would be the best driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,80174,576,577,3631,1885,3760,44,42483,3630,82],"class_list":["post-376697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-legends","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-gpfans","tag-max-verstappen","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-news","tag-ralf-schumacher","tag-sam-cook","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}