Picking the best in any sport is difficult. Times change. Perceptions alter. Nostalgia plays tricks. The here and now is uniquely vivid.

In motor racing, the task is even harder. While a football is still essentially a football (if made of different materials), Formula One divides between the era of immediate peril and one of more distant peril. It is still dangerous and always will be but the change confuses accurate assessment between one era and another.

It is a personal list. Forgive me.


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Who the greatest of all time is in any sport is a difficult task, but JONATHAN McEVOY has weighed in on the debate in Formula One amid Max Verstappen’s dominance with Red Bull

Schumacher celebrates winning the German Grand Prix in 2004
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Lewis Hamilton won six of his world titles across a seven-year spell with Mercedes
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Michael Schumacher (left) and Lewis Hamilton (right) hold the record for the most Drivers’ Championships with seven each, but that does not necessarily make them greatest of all time