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35 WGM #52 2017/11 wgm8.com and three World Championships before his tragic death in 1994. Since then, the list of Macau Grand Prix winners has included seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher, his brother Ralf Schumacher and other F1 luminaries David Brabham and Takuma Sato. The likes of current Ferrari driver and four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel, Damon Hill, Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Mark Webber, Alan Jones and Mika Häkkinen have also raced along these streets. Ironically, Michael Schumacher’s win over Häkkinen in 1990 is part of Macau Grand Prix folklore. Four years before claiming the first of his seven F1 World Championships, Schumacher was embroiled in an epic battle with Häkkinen in Macau which saw him leading the Finn in the second of two races but needing to finish more than three seconds ahead in order to win on aggregate time. Häkkinen was easily keeping pace but with just a few laps remaining the two cars collided as he tried to pass Schumacher down the straight. Häkkinen careened into the barrier, allowing Schumacher to limp to victory and sparking debate ever since as to who was to blame! If ever there was any doubt as to the pathway Macau provides for the world’s best up and coming drivers, you only need to look back four years. In 2013, the same year the Macau Grand Prix celebrated its 60th anniversary, the 22 drivers taking part in the Formula 1 World Championship included 15 who had previously raced in Macau! As for the recent history of the Macau Grand Prix, the famous race has been all about two men – Sweden’s Felix Rosenqvist and Portugal’s António Félix da Costa. Rosenqvist, driving for the historic Theodore Racing Team – the team Senna led to victory back in 1983 – won back-to-back races in 2014 and 2015 before falling agonizingly short of the three-peat with a second-place finish last year. 迈克尔·舒马赫1990年在澳门格兰披治大赛车夺魁之后一路斩获七个一级方程式世界冠军 Michael Schumacher won seven Formula 1 world titles after his victory in the Macau Grand Prix in 1990