Michael Schumacher broke his leg on Silverstone during the first lap in 1999 British GP after brake failure on his Ferrari F399 at the end of the Hangar straight, for which he missed six races and a chance to fight for the title.

On this day in 2000, David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen secured a McLaren 1-2 at Magny Cours after an exciting battle with Michael Schumacher who started from the pole position, but the race will be remembered by Coulthard's middle finger to Schumacher when duo battled for the lead.

Rubens Barrichello celebrated his first victory of the season 15 years ago after a controversial situation in the Austrian GP where he had to let Michael Schumacher pass for the victory.

On this day in 2002, Michael Schumacher won his sixth race of the season in the opening eight rounds and continued to march toward his fifth world championship title.

After winning two consecutive titles for Benetton, Michael Schumacher, as the biggest Formula 1 star, moved to the biggest F1 team of all time, Ferrari.

On this day in 2001, Ferrari celebrated a one-two victory in Monaco where Michael Schumacher won in front of his teammate Rubens Barrichello and former team-mate Eddie Irvine in Jaguar.

Ferrari celebrated their first 1-2 victory of the 1999 F1 season in Monaco after Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine beat Mika Hakkinen in McLaren who started from pole position.

Michael Schumacher celebrated in Monaco for the third time on this day in 1997 and took the championship lead from Jacques Villeneuve while his future teammate Rubens Barrichello in Stewart and his current team-mate Eddie Irvine completed the podium.

Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher have been standing together on a podium on this day in 1993 at the Spanish GP in Barcelona.

Michael Schumacher won for the fifth consecutive time at the start of the 2004 F1 season, day after winning the fourth pole position in 2004 and thus equating the 12-year-old record of Nigel Mansell who also won first five races of the season.