Michael Schumacher is the most successful Formula One driver of all time. The German collected a record 91 race victories through 2012, when he retired from motor sports for the second, and final time.
Schumacher, who won the last of his world titles in 2004, definitively retired in 2012 in the Brazilian Grand Prix, after an abandoned attempt to quit six years earlier. During the ten years from 1994 and 2004, he dominated.
Schumacher retired for the first time aged 37, but the father of two could not resist the lure of the track, and in 2010 he signed a three-year deal with Mercedes. However a less competitive car meant Schumacher could not reproduce his former glory and he quit for good in 2012.
Schumacher burst into Formula One in 1991 by qualifying seventh in his debut race in Belgium and a year later he was racing for Benetton, where he won his first Formula One grand prix in 1992. Schumacher won his first two titles with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 before joining Ferrari.
He then took five world crowns in a row with the Italian team between 2000 and 2004 in a golden age for Ferrari as well for as himself. Schumacher is the most successful Formula One driver of all time with a record 91 race victories in an extraordinary and and at times, controversia career spanning more than two decades.
