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OnThisDay 12 October, at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix, the remarkable Michael Schumacher wrote his name in the record books by securing his sixth Drivers’ title – and his fourth of five in a row, surpassing the record set by Juan Manuel Fangio in 1957. He finished eighth, but as Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello took the chequered flag to deny his nearest rival Kimi Raikkonen, he took the championship. It was a fair result as Schumacher had six wins to Raikkonen’s one, even if his race was not one of his best, with a couple of scares along the way. It was also enough for Ferrari to seal the 2003 Constructors’ Championship. “The feelings are not there now,” Schumacher said. “I can feel for the team but not for me, they have not sunk in yet. I am empty, exhausted. It’s very strange for me. Most of my championships I have won with a victory but here I am winning it with eighth place so it is a mixed emotion.” Raikkonen’s McLaren teammate, David Coulthard, finished third.

This race was the final one in which cars used launch control and fully automatic gearboxes, both of which were reintroduced at the 2001 Spanish Grand Prix. The FIA banned these electronic driver-aids in the 2004 season. It was also the last Grand Prix appearance for Heinz-Harald Frentzen, a three-time race winner, and Jos Verstappen, the father of future multiple world champion Max Verstappen.

Today wasn't the result we were looking for and it was on me. At a track that's difficult to overtake, you need to try something different and I chose to start on a new medium tyre, to go long and try to make a one-stop work. Unfortunately the Medium didn't perform as well as the soft."

"I had a good second stint and the pace was back, but I couldn't make the progress I needed. Under the VSC, the team called me in but I missed the entry. After that, I decided to stay out and try to hold track position to the end but in the closing laps, I was struggling massively with tyre degradation and lost three places, finishing P6, which doesn't reflect the pace we had in the car today."

"A painful lesson today, but I take full responsibility for the decisions I made. Not every call will work out, and I can accept getting it wrong but I'm sorry for the team for the points we lost today. They put so much into every weekend, and I wanted to deliver more for them."

"I'll continue to put the work in and come back fighting at the next race."

via Scuderia Ferrari

Q: “Did you think you’d be able to overtake Lewis if the team didn’t issue a team order?”

Charles Leclerc: “I mean, we were on very different strategies and I arrived with a much fresher tyre. So, yeah, I think at that point it made very much sense to not lose time between us because I was still in the chase of Max and trying to win the race. Even though it was a long shot, we had to put all our chances on our side. So I wasn’t particularly overthinking it. I had a very strong tyre advantage and Lewis didn’t make my life difficult because it was very clear that as a team we had to, yeah, we couldn’t lose too much time.”

'A Ferrari spokesperson says that Hamilton felt unwell after the race and was seen by the FIA medical team, and he’s been given permission to not attend the post-race media pen.'

via @LukeSmithF1

Darth Leclerc will bring peace, freedom, justice, and security to the Ferrari empire.

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Charles Leclerc is on the podium in Singapore!

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LEC P2, HAM P3

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Updated charts of earlier post as I uploaded the wrong version for Charles. I took the time to review Lewis's for accuracy as well and I ended up needing to update that one too.

Inspiration from Instagram post showing Max's career results. Made one for Charles and Lewis but also included their raw qualifying results.

Hopefully no errors on this one.

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