Schumaker is head and shoulders the best there has been in the modern era.
Its all well and good bigging up Hamilton, who has always driven one of the top cars since his introduction to the Sport, but he not not done what Schmaker has done and gone into struggling teams and turned them into World Champions.
Lets not forget Hamilton could not get close to Vettal when he was driving that all conquering Red Bull; not until the big boys ganged up on them and declared a car, which complied in every way possible, to be illegal.
Schumaker turned a Benneton Team, with a previous record on 5 GP wins in around 300 attempts into Constructer's Champions within 5 years, winning the title twice while doing so.
He then went to a struggling Ferrari team, who had not won a Constructers Championship for 13 Years, and did what the likes of Alesi, Prost, Mansell and Berger could not do, win one at his third attempt.
Hamilton in comparison, drives an incredibly fast car in an era were only two or three cars are actually capable of winning a race; not much of a comparison really.
Not a bit of this is true, at all.
For a start, Schumacher went into a race winning Benetton team and benefitted massively in 94 from a) Senna's struggle to adapt to Williams and then the fallout from his death
B) having a highly illegal traction control system on his car, which the FIA knew about but couldn't prove, hence why Schumacher tended to get a lot of in race penalties that season, and
C) blatent cheating in taking out Hill in the last race, for which he should he been stripped of the title.
In 95 his Benetton was nearly as good as Hill's, and Hill was no F1 legend. Good driver, worthy champion, but no great. His team mate Coulthard was a total rookie and Williams were in disarray.
He then went to Ferrari. They hadn't won a title in nearly 30 years, but they were never shit. Always potential race winners, always top 3 or 4, and they hired Ross Brawn who was the brain's behind it.
Schumi still tried to cheat once again in 97 by taking out Villeneuve; didn't work that time though.
Two years of battling Hakkinen followed, who was about the best championship rival he faced; and in three seasons as rivals Hakkinen won in two of them (admittedly in 99 Schumacher missed a lot with a broken leg).
5 consecutive years followed of having the best car by a mile, until Renault suddenly had the best car and the championships dried up.
You forget as well that Schumacher had it written into his contract that the Ferrari no.2 driver could not race him and could not compete for the championship. You also forget how many times Irvine or Barrichello had to follow team orders to let Schumacher take the win; it was loads. How many of those 91 wins were earned by someone else and gifted to him? I'm guessing less than 10, but close to it.
How many of Hamilton's 92 have been given him by team orders? There probably have been occasions but I cannot think of any.
Hamilton came to a McLaren team that did not have the best car and had not done so for years. In 2007 McLaren had not had a champion for 8 years. In his rookie season he came within a couple of points of being champion, and absolutely should have won it;
against the reigning double champion Alonso in the same car.
He then won it on the last corner of the last race in 08, before the new rules came in and caught everyone out but Brawn. McLaren have never completed again, his 2009 car was an absolute dog and I think he still won 3 races.
He's then joined a Mercedes team that hasn't won in closer to 50 years and built them into a modern F1 Behemoth. He hasn't had the best car every year; definately not in 19 and probably not in 18, but he swept the title easily in both seasons. He has never had a teammate signed just to support him; every team mate has been there as a genuine championship rival, and he has beaten them all.
Schumacher raced Mansell, Prost and Senna; but at the very end of their careers; literally the first two retired in succession before Schumacher was really competitive and Senna died when he would have had years of denying Schumacher titles otherwise. Hakkinen was then the best driver that Schumacher competed with. In his 5 title years there was literally no one competing against him.
Hamilton came into F1 battling Alonso in his prime, then Schumacher and Vettel. He is consistently pissing on Verstappen and Leclerc, the next two champions of F1. Hamilton has raced and beaten the next two best drivers in terms of championships and race wins; Schumacher didn't
There is no question that Schumacher and Hamilton can be compared in a way Hamilton and others can't. Hamilton isn't a cheat. Hamilton has beaten all but one of Schumacher's records and still has 2 years at least in him. He also makes fewer mistakes; Schumacher himself admitted he made at least one a year (look at Canada in 99). Hamilton very, very rarely makes those kinds of mistakes; I think we would be talking years between them.
No doubt at all for me that Hamilton is and will be the superior driver.
And Schumacher won with Ferrari at his 5th attempt