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I am half German and half British, but live in Britain mostly, I can tell you allot of people love Vettel here and the ones that don't like him does not relate to his nationality at all.

Bringing up because he's German the British don't like him is Racism, and is bringing things back from the war and Racism is not allowed on the forum.

Right, I'll give you the wins since Schumi's debut.

M Schumacher 91
Vettel 26
R Schumacher 6
Frentzen 3
Rosberg 1
TOTAL 127 (or 126 if you consider Rosberg a Finn)

I make it 403 races, including Spa 1991 since Schumi's debut. That makes it a 31.5% success rate. When you consider however that all but 10 victories were from Schumacher or Vettel, or only 36 not from Schumi, it doesn't look as impressive. For race starts, I won't bother too much as Rosberg was probably more influenced by his father and only the current generation are likely to have entered the sport influenced by Michael.

Back to stats, before the Schumi era there were only 12 wins from German born drivers (Rindt 6, von Trips 2, Mass 1), or 3 from German registered drivers. All were from a similar era, same as Ralf, HH and (at a stretch) Nico Rosberg. I'm sure Schumi's and Vettel's influences will continue, but discount them and we've had two generations of German GP winners and domination has only come from two drivers.

If you look at the comments on the Daily Mail F1 columns, there have been derogatory comments about "those German drivers" bordering on the ridiculous. But I agree with what you are saying in principle.

Quite a lot IMO. In case of Vettel especially, a lot of British people hate him not only because he is a German, but gatecrashed into what many were hoping to be a Hamilton era.

PS: I am Indian and so neutral.

The Daily Mail is pretty much a barometer of... the sort of people who read the Daily Mail.

There aren't words in the dictionary to describe that sort of person, so I won't try.

I am half German and half British, but live in Britain mostly, I can tell you allot of people love Vettel here and the ones that don't like him does not relate to his nationality at all.

Bringing up because he's German the British don't like him is Racism, and is bringing things back from the war and Racism is not allowed on the forum.

Thanks for that summary, appreciated.
To me it does appear as if Schumacher's success helped promote the sport in Germany - helping to identify new talent like Vettel, Hulk, Sutil etc. (not saying they would not have been spotted if Schumacher was not successful).

Also - that 31.5% success rate is incredible - especially when considering the bulk of it is by 2 drivers.....

Probably not relevant but there were a lot of German GP winners in pre F1 days.
Carraciolla, Lang, von Brauchitsch, Stuck, Rosemeyer Von Delius, Muller etc come to mind.
Also not sure how Beloff would have performed if he had lived.

Agreed, but that was when Auto Union and Mercedes Benz had clearly better cars and they almost exclusively hired German drivers as per Nazi orders (Richard Seaman being a notable exception).

After the war, Germany was rebuilding and Merc came back to Motorsport and F1, but pulled out after the 1955 Le Mans accident. Audi have never returned to 'F1' since the formula was formed and until Schumi arrived German drivers have been more interested in sports cars. Ironically it was down to Mercedes' desire to return to F1 and the Swissman who ran their World Sportscar team that Schumacher got his break in F1 and reignited German domination. Michael 'thanked' Mercedes by returning for his second stint in the formula before retiring.