2006年10月22日：阿隆索加冕世界冠军，舒马赫告别F1
2006年10月22日，费尔南多·阿隆索在巴西大奖赛上击败迈克尔·舒马赫，夺得个人第二个F1世界冠军；七届世界冠军舒马赫同日从F1退役。
历史上的今天：费尔南多·阿隆索赢得世界冠军，迈克尔·舒马赫从F1退役
20年前，阿隆索夺得个人第二个F1世界冠军，舒马赫则告别了世界锦标赛
费尔南多·阿隆索，雷诺，迈克尔·舒马赫，法拉利
2006年10月22日，费尔南多·阿隆索在巴西大奖赛上击败迈克尔·舒马赫，夺得世界冠军；同日，七届世界冠军舒马赫从F1退役。
说实话，那天阿隆索几乎毫无疑问会锁定第二个总冠军头衔。舒马赫的引擎故障以及他在铃鹿站领先时退赛，将原本可能的两分领先变成了十分落后，这意味着这位法拉利车手既需要自己获胜，又需要对手在英特拉格斯不得分。
当舒马赫在第三节排位赛中遇到燃油压力问题、最终仅列第十位发车而阿隆索排在第四时，这一努力变得更加艰难。
“我不知道我们能做什么，”这位德国人在排位赛后说。“我不知道比赛会如何发展。很难预测什么，但我会尽我所能。从第十位起步要困难得多，但我当然会去尝试。”
“别忘了，过去迈克尔曾从更靠后的发车位赢下比赛，”法拉利技术总监罗斯·布朗补充道。
那个说法并不准确——在此前的248场比赛中，舒马赫仅有一次从前十名之外的位置夺冠——但这位法拉利车手恰恰证明了布朗为何会做出那样的判断。
他在第一圈就从第10位跃升至第7位，随后超越了前队友鲁本斯·巴里切罗，并在第八圈从外道超越吉安卡洛·费斯切拉升至第五——这意味着他已经紧追在自己的争冠对手身后——但与雷诺赛车的一次轻微触碰导致左后轮爆胎。
舒马赫跌至第20位，落后领跑的队友菲利佩·马萨69秒，而与阿隆索的差距恰好为一分钟。到第27圈时，他已经追上了队尾集团，并接连超越了蒂亚戈·蒙泰罗、罗伯特·杜恩博斯、尼克·海费尔德和罗伯特·库比卡，同时利用提前进站策略超越其他对手并受益于对手退赛，在第二次进站前已升至第五位。
重新出站后他位列第七，舒马赫再次超越巴里切罗，并在第一弯迫使费斯切拉锁死轮胎，于第63圈夺得第五位。马萨强势的主场表现意味着他仍领先33秒，但排名第二的阿隆索距离正在追赶的法拉利赛车仅差八秒。
舒马赫未能获得登上领奖台所需的圈数，但在倒数第三圈对迈凯伦车队的基米·莱科宁完成了一次干净利落的超越，升至第四名，而阿隆索则锁定了年度冠军。
费尔南多·阿隆索，雷诺车队；迈克尔·舒马赫，法拉利车队
“这场比赛一片混乱，我觉得这个词用得恰当，”舒马赫说。“我们今天确实拥有一辆极佳的赛车，从纯速度来看我们本可以套所有人一圈。所以我必须说，就赛车性能而言这是赛季的完美收官，但对我来说结果并不理想。”
阿隆索称赞这是结束他在雷诺时光的“绝佳方式”，他将雷诺描述为“我在一级方程式中的家”，随后他将转投迈凯伦，这一转会早已备受期待，他将于2007年加盟。
“我会一生都带着与他们的这些回忆，以这样的方式结束最后一场比赛是你做梦都想不到的，你甚至不会去尝试梦想，因为它总是超出你的预期，”他评论道。
沿着那条职业道路，这位西班牙人梦想着效仿艾尔顿·塞纳。“加入迈凯伦而从未与法拉利一起比赛，让我想起了很多塞纳，”他告诉西班牙电视五台。“他赢得了三个冠军，对我来说，带着三个冠军退役并实现他所实现的成就，将是我职业生涯的目标。”二十年过去了，阿隆索仍在F1中追逐那第三个冠军。
与此同时，舒马赫在蒙扎宣布退役一个月后，回顾了他辉煌的职业生涯。
随着法拉利为2007年签下莱科宁，舒马赫留下将要以年轻车手马萨为代价，所以他决定不这么做。但未来他有可能回归吗？
“一级方程式赛车一直在变，”这位37岁的车手回答道。“技术、引擎、规则、赛道。一旦你离开，就是离开了。”
最终，竞争的吸引力实在太大，舒马赫于2010年至2012年重返梅赛德斯，度过了三年时光。在此期间，他难以与队友尼科·罗斯伯格匹敌，仅收获一次领奖台，并在最后一次摩纳哥出战中拿下杆位。
但在舒马赫阵营中，他首次退役时的一大感受也是如释重负。
当德国电视台RTL问她什么让她感到幸福时，他的妻子科琳娜·舒马赫回答道：“我们都能健康地回家，这些年什么都没发生，我们只付出了一条腿骨折的代价就挺过来了。”
不幸的是，尽管这位七届世界冠军在赛车生涯中安然无恙，但他在2013年12月的一次滑雪事故中受了重伤。现年55岁的他，自那以后就再未公开露面。
英文原文
On this day: Fernando Alonso wins the world title, Michael Schumacher retires from F1
20 years ago, Alonso claimed his second F1 title as Schumacher bowed out from the world championship
Fernando Alonso, Renault, Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
On 22 October 2006, Fernando Alonso beat Michael Schumacher to the world title in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as the seven-time champion retired from Formula 1.
In truth, there was little doubt Alonso was going to clinch a second crown that day. Schumacher’s engine failure and retirement from the lead of the Suzuka race had turned a potential two-point lead into a 10-point deficit, meaning the Ferrari racer needed both to win and his rival not to score at Interlagos.
That endeavour took a turn for the worse when Schumacher encountered a fuel pressure problem in Q3, leaving him 10th on the grid with Alonso fourth.
“I don't know what we can do,” the German said after qualifying. “I don't know how the race will develop. It is hard to predict something, but I will try my best. It is much more difficult starting from 10th, but of course I will try.”
“Let's not forget that in the past, Michael has managed to win races starting even further back on the grid,” Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn added.
That statement was inaccurate – across the preceding 248 races, Schumacher had won from outside the top 10 just once – but the Ferrari driver showed exactly why Brawn made it.
He jumped from 10th to seventh on the first lap, then passed former team-mate Rubens Barrichello and overtook Giancarlo Fisichella around the outside for fifth on lap eight – meaning he was already right behind his title rival – but the slightest of touches with the Renault caused a rear-left puncture.
Schumacher found himself down in 20th, 69 seconds adrift of race-leading team-mate Felipe Massa, while his deficit to Alonso was exactly one minute. By lap 27, he had caught the back of the pack and successively overtook Tiago Monteiro, Robert Doornbos, Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, while undercutting other opponents and benefitting from retirements, to find himself fifth before his second pitstop.
Emerging back out in seventh, Schumacher passed Barrichello again and pressured Fisichella into a lock-up in Turn 1 to claim fifth on lap 63. Massa’s commanding home drive meant he was still 33 seconds up the road, but second-placed Alonso was just eight seconds away from the recovering Ferrari.
Schumacher ran out of laps to claim a podium finish but still performed a clinical move on McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen on the antepenultimate lap to take fourth position, as Alonso secured the championship.
Fernando Alonso, Renault, Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
“The race was chaotic, I think that is the right word,” Schumacher said. “We really had a superb car today, from the pure speed we could have lapped everybody. So I have to say it was the perfect end to the season in terms of car performance, but for me it didn't work out well.”
Alonso hailed a “fantastic way” to conclude his time at Renault, which he described as “my family in Formula 1”, ahead of his long-awaited move to McLaren for 2007.
“I will have these memories with them all my life, and to finish the last race like this is something that you never dream of, you never even try to dream of, because it's always more than what you expected,” he commented.
With that career path, the Spaniard dreamt of emulating Ayrton Senna. “To join McLaren and never to race with Ferrari reminds me a lot of Senna,” he told TV channel Telecinco. “He won three titles, and for me, to retire with three and achieve what he achieved would be the objective of my career.” Twenty years on, Alonso is still chasing that third crown in F1.
Meanwhile, Schumacher looked back on his glittering career, one month after announcing his retirement in Monza.
With Ferrari signing Raikkonen for 2007, Schumacher staying would have come at the expense of youngster Massa, so he decided against it. But was there any chance he could return in the future?
“Formula 1 is constantly changing,” the 37-year-old responded. “The technology, the engines, the rules, the circuits. Once you're out of it, you're out.”
In the end, the attraction of competition proved too strong and Schumacher returned for a three-year stint at Mercedes from 2010 to 2012, during which he struggled to match team-mate Nico Rosberg and scored just one podium finish while topping qualifying on his last Monaco outing.
But in the Schumacher camp, one major feeling when he first retired also was relief.
When asked by German network RTL what made her happy, his wife, Corinna Schumacher, replied: “That we're all going to go home healthy, that nothing happened in all these years and that we got away with just the one broken leg.”
Unfortunately, while the seven-time world champion emerged unscathed from his racing career, he was severely injured in a skiing accident in December 2013. Now 55 years old, he has not been seen in public since then.
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