KING OF THE HILL
They’re all worth the same in points, but some grands prix victories carry more intrinsic value than others for F1’s most celebrated drivers. There are certain tracks where wins have a greater meaning: Monaco, Silverstone, Monza, Suzuka – and Spa-Francorchamps. Somehow it always seems fitting and right when the current elite shine at the tough ones, the places where Fangio, Moss, Clark, Stewart, Prost and Senna strode before them. In such context, Michael Schumacher and Spa made sense like that. It was almost as if he was made to race at the swooping track through Belgium’s Ardennes. It’s where everything all started for him in 1991, parachuted as he was into a pretty little car that had enough about it to let him show what he was made of. After that, Schumacher didn’t win at Spa every year – not even during his Ferrari pomp – but he won there an awful lot. A record six times. And every time he rolled out of the pitlane at La Source, we expected something special to happen. That was just how it was with Schumacher and Spa.
1992 REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?
landmark debut in the green Jordan 191, Schumacher
