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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:23 David Rosenthal Michael Schumacher, Ferrari number one driver, and it takes a couple years for Luca and the team to turn this around, but this is just absolute domination that they unleash on the field.
- ▶ 1:55:40 Ben Gilbert By the end of the decade, there would be five straight years, 2000 to 2004, where Michael Schumacher won every single driver's championship five years in a row.
- ▶ 2:32:25 David Rosenthal I mean, was true, but like, for God's sakes, just a few years earlier, Luca had engineered, you know, the greatest dynasty in Formula One history with Schumacher and Braun and Todd, and like, you know, everybody knows what's really going…
- ▶ 3:37:19 Ben Gilbert And hasn't really won much since Michael Schumacher.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:09 David Rosenthal Go look at any of the sports historical greats like Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher or Alan Pross.
- ▶ 2:16:26 David Rosenthal The racing had gotten pretty boring because Ferrari had been on this huge run where Michael Schumacher was just dominating the sport and like blowing away all competition.
- ▶ 2:16:38 Ben Gilbert Well, I mean, there were some years where it really came down to the wire or didn't go Schumacher's way.
- ▶ 2:16:43 Ben Gilbert But if you were an F one fan in the nineties and early 2000, it is totally fair to say there was Schumacher and then there was everyone else.
- ▶ 2:19:16 David Rosenthal So, we talked a second ago about Michael Schumacher's dominance of the league in the late nineties and early 2000 at Ferrari.
- ▶ 2:19:24 Ben Gilbert Side note, did you know he is one of the first athletes to pass a billion dollars in career earnings?
- ▶ 2:19:36 Ben Gilbert Michael Schumacher was getting paid sixty million dollars a year.
- ▶ 2:20:18 Ben Gilbert And Schumacher had a lot of off the field stuff too.
- ▶ 2:20:23 David Rosenthal Well, so one thing we didn't talk about in Schumacher's dominance at Ferrari was like, yes, it was him.
- ▶ 2:20:30 David Rosenthal He was the driver of his generation.
- ▶ 2:20:35 David Rosenthal But it was also the engineering team behind him, and specifically the engineering team led by technical director at Ferrari at the time, Ross Braun.
- ▶ 2:21:08 David Rosenthal So Braun figured out a whole bunch of stuff together with Schumacher.
- ▶ 2:21:14 Ben Gilbert And Schumacher's work ethic was unbelievable.
- ▶ 2:21:16 Ben Gilbert I mean, there's another great documentary that people should watch Schumacher on Netflix, but he was like a driver and an engineer or like a driver and a mechanic.
- ▶ 2:21:24 Ben Gilbert He's always in the garage.
- ▶ 2:21:26 Ben Gilbert He's there at all hours.
- ▶ 2:21:27 Ben Gilbert He's
- ▶ 2:21:32 Ben Gilbert He's spending, you know, if he's not on the track, and he's not in the garage, then he's working out, and he's, his work ethic is just like unbelievable.
- ▶ 2:21:41 David Rosenthal Yeah, he's an animal.
- ▶ 2:21:42 David Rosenthal He's like, he's the Max Verstappen of his era.
- ▶ 2:21:45 Ben Gilbert But he's got a wrench in his hand, and he's like the ultimate collaborator for the engineers.
- ▶ 2:22:22 Ben Gilbert If we send a bunch of engineers over there, they send a bunch of engineers over here, we can effectively have custom made tires just for our car and just for Michael's driving style.
- ▶ 2:23:26 David Rosenthal So here, Braun and Schumacher and Ferrari are like, oh, wow, we just found a way to custom engineer our own tires.
- ▶ 2:23:35 David Rosenthal So that was a big part of Schumacher and Ferrari's dynasty.
- ▶ 2:34:39 David Rosenthal They hire Michael Schumacher to come out of retirement.
- ▶ 2:34:45 David Rosenthal They hire Schumacher out of retirement.
- ▶ 2:35:06 David Rosenthal Schumacher and Braun and Mercedes do not win another Super Bowl.
- ▶ 2:36:02 David Rosenthal So after a couple of years of Schumacher and Braun.
- ▶ 2:36:18 David Rosenthal They fire Braun and Schumacher, which is crazy.
- ▶ 2:36:21 David Rosenthal Who fires Michael Schumacher?
- ▶ 2:36:58 David Rosenthal Who could you possibly hire to replace Michael Schumacher as your number one driver on the Mercedes team?
- ▶ 2:37:45 David Rosenthal For the sport during this period is it's not like the Schumacher era where the top team is just blowing away the field.