The Benetton B197 had a lacklustre opening to the 1997 season at Melbourne but the team and Berger bounced back at the 1997 Brazilian Grand Prix, with Berger finishing second having overtaken Mika Häkkinen and Michael Schumacher.

Schumacher attacked Senna but bounced over a sandtrap and lost 15 seconds but not a place.

In the last race of the season, Häkkinen won again with an unfortunate Schumacher who took pole position was forced to start from the back of the grid due to a problem encountered on his warm-up lap and had made a good recovery in the race before a puncture forced him to retire.

In practice for the Monaco Grand Prix Montoya was penalized to start from the back by race stewards for brake-testing his former Williams team mate, Ralf Schumacher, causing a four car collision.

Schumacher gave Alesi a lift back to the pits after Alesi's car ran out of fuel just before the Pits Hairpin.

Australian driver Lex Davison and German driver Michael Schumacher are the most successful drivers in the 83 year history of the event taking four wins each ; while McLaren have been the most successful constructors with twelve victories, their success stretching back into the pre-Formula One history of the race, their first win being in 1970.

However, after being the slowest of all the Force India testers on the day he tested, Schumacher stated that he was no longer interested in driving for that team, and that he would likely not be back into another Formula One car in 2008.

With the arrival of Michael Schumacher at Ferrari in 1996, Berger moved back to Benetton, although the team lost the competitiveness of the previous years.

Schumacher moved back to England before World War II, as he had no intention of living under Nazism.

The heavy rain caused low visibility, and Michael Schumacher ran into the back of David Coulthard, an event that angered Schumacher so much he stormed into the McLaren garage to confront Coulthard, claiming he had tried to kill him.

The incident caused Montoya to lose momentum, and fall back towards his teammate Ralf Schumacher.

He was nine seconds clear when he made his first refuelling stop on the 16th lap, with Michael Schumacher another ten seconds further back.

Schumacher suddenly slowed and locked his left front brake after apparently being surprised by the slow speed of the safety car and Montoya moved to the inside trying to avoid running into the back of Schumacher.

And treacherous track conditions caused multiple drivers to spin out of the race, including then-reigning World Champion Michael Schumacher, ending a remarkable run of race finishes dating back to the German Grand Prix 2001.

The Colombian driver stunningly muscled his way past Michael Schumacher early on and led easily until an incident in which Arrows ' Jos Verstappen ran into the back of his Williams-BMW and ended his race.

One of the reasons he got back into regular broadcasting was because after his wife died, Tim McCarver and Elizabeth Schumacher, his friend and business manager, urged him to get back into the game.

The show returned in 2005, taking a look back at the 1995 season, when Michael Schumacher took his second straight World Drivers ' Championship.

Williams driver Ralf Schumacher ran into the back of polesitter Rubens Barrichello in the Ferrari.

A lap later, Jacques Villeneuve's BAR ran into the back of Ralf Schumacher's Williams at high speed whilst Schumacher was braking into turn three.

Their highest race finishes thereafter were 4th at France with Schumacher and also at the Brickyard, where Trulli started from the back and fought his way through to beat champion Fernando Alonso's Renault.

Schumacher split with long term manager Willi Weber during this season, and partnered with Hans Mahr, who tried to project Schumacher back into a winning team-a move that did not work.

Senna proceeded to pass Schumacher going into Ascari, and then slipstreamed passed Berger into the first corner, and got back to second by passing arch-rival Prost going into the second chicane.

On lap 38, Schumacher, delayed by a stop-and-go penalty for forcing Frentzen's Williams off the track, caught Hill on the home straight ; Hill moved across the track three times to block Schumacher, who missed his braking point and ran over the kerbs at the chicane to take the place.

After the race, Schumacher said that'all Montoya was doing was to try to take Schumacher out with himself off the circuit '.

" However he went on to take the chequered flag with a convincing victory over Michael Schumacher, albeit after McLaren teammate Montoya retired with driveshaft failure while leading.

The year was marked by controversy, however, when Ferrari team orders required Barrichello to allow the trailing Schumacher to pass him on the final straight of the to take victory.

The inaugural Championship race in 1994 saw Michael Schumacher take an easy victory after Ayrton Senna was involved in a first corner accident with Mika Häkkinen and Nicola Larini.

Jarno Trulli, momentarily in second place, pitted on lap 12, with fast work by the Renault team allowing him to take 4th position from Ralf Schumacher.

Trulli then stopped the following lap, splitting Schumacher and Barrichello to take fifth.

The second session saw Ferrari take over with Michael Schumacher completely eclipsing the efforts of Alonso in the previous session.

Ferrari consultant and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher was asked to take over Massa's race seat during his recovery, but his comeback was prevented by neck injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident earlier in the year.

Schumacher is too intent on pandering to the youth market to take the mad risks and plunges that make for a scintillating bad movie.

Later in 1991 Brawn returned to F1 as technical director of the Benetton team, helping it win consecutive World Drivers ' Championships in 1994 and 1995 with Michael Schumacher, and to take the World Constructors ' Championship in 1995.

After completing the Benetton B192 for the season, in which future 7 time World Champion Michael Schumacher would take his first ever Grand Prix win at the Belgian Grand Prix, Barnard left Benetton after a dispute with team boss Flavio Briatore over money.

Before the German Grand Prix, it was announced that Pizzonia would take over from Marc Gené, who had been filling in for the injured Ralf Schumacher.

Toward the end of lap 1 Schumacher surprised Mansell to take third place.

Mansell closed on Berger, and on lap 20 he made his way up the inside to take the lead and proceeded to pull away, while Berger came under pressure from the charging Schumacher.

Midway through the opening lap Schumacher passed Alesi to take second position.

At the end of lap 9, the three came out of the final chicane nose to tail and Hill passed Schumacher on the start / finish straight to take 5th place away.

After the first lap mayhem, Schumacher went on to take on the leading Ferrari of Gerhard Berger but fell away with engine problems very quickly.

Schumacher recovered from a poor start to take the lead from Villeneuve on lap 13, and from then on he dominated the race, lapping over three seconds a lap faster than the remainder of the field.

His team-mate Ralf Schumacher started from the pit lane-he was sent out to take his place on the grid on dry tyres, but spun and crashed on his way to the grid.

It was won by Michael Schumacher, however the race is probably best remembered for the crash on the first lap involving Alexander Wurz and Jean Alesi, which resulted in the race being red flagged and restarted, only for another collision to take place and the race being started once again under the safety car.

Damon Hill, who also one stopped came through to take his first points of the year, finishing ahead of Michael and Ralf Schumacher in fifth and sixth places respectively.

At the start Irvine passed Schumacher to take the lead, however he allowed his team leader past at the end of the first lap and the proceeded to hold up Häkkinen.