Ever wondered what separates the very best Formula 1 drivers from the merely very good ones?
Driving Style Secrets is a special podcast series from The Race, explaining how the best F1 drivers do what they do, and it’s back for its second series.
Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher is the man under the microscope in episode 1, as Edd Straw and Mark Hughes reveal what made him the most extraordinary driver of his era.
They tackle everything from his incredible ability to precisely judge grip levels from the earliest laps of practice, to how he could identify technical nuances particular to certain cars and exploit them in a way that left his team-mates awestruck.
There’s also some fascinating insight from legendary designer John Barnard, who saw Schumacher’s incredible adaptability first-hand when Schumacher made his testing debut for Ferrari in late-1995.
Find out why Schumacher had ‘bang average’ reactions for an F1 driver - and why this didn’t hold him back - and the reasons why he wasn’t the same high-calibre driver when he returned to F1 with Mercedes in 2010, after three seasons away.
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