Who is the best driver?

Question

Is it Ayrton Senna (3times world Champion), Fangio (5 times) or M Schumacher (7) I know the stats favour Schumacher but does the fact that MS never have anyone with equal status as his teammate.

Answer 1

Ayrton Senna

Answer 2

M Schumacher

Answer 3

i have to agree that Juan Fangio would be at the top of the list ,next i would put Alain Prost who was an incredible driver and my personal favorite,Alberto Ascari i think would come in third then Michael Schumacher and rounding out the top five would have to be Emerson Fittipaldi .i race karts and ran into Emo at the nationals along with his son and grandson who were also racing and they were the most down to earth and approachable family and was my fathers favorite driver,

Answer 4

Schumacher was a great strategist,Senna was naturally gifted with great hand/eye coordination and Fangio well I really don't know much about him. each was considered the best during their era's.comparisons between the drivers ultimately are just opinions of others besides they were all great drivers and we should all just leave it at that.

Answer 5

Fangio, by a long way. There's never been another driver who came close, not even Clark and Stewart, the drivers I'd rate as second and third in the all-time list.

From drivers I actually saw, then I'd say Prost ahead of Senna, Schumacher, Lauda, Piquet. The other two I'd put in the top 10 are Ascari and Moss.

The stats only favour Schumacher in absolute terms - look at the figures as a percentage of race starts and then Fangio is miles ahead of anybody else. Also, Fangio won his 5 titles from 7 full seasons, Schumacher took 15 years to put his 7 titles together.