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On this day: How Schumacher put Ferrari back on top in F1

On 8 October 2000, Michael Schumacher won Ferrari’s first Formula 1 drivers’ title in over two decades.

The tifosi had been biding their time since Jody Scheckter’s successful 1979 campaign, with Schumacher coming close to the title for Ferrari in 1997 and 1998 against Jacques Villeneuve and Mika Hakkinen, while team-mate Eddie Irvine led the fight against Hakkinen until the last race in 1999 after the German broke his leg.

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