Who is the greatest ever? This question arose again when Lewis Hamilton surpassed Michael Schumacher's score of Formula 1 victories recently, as it does whenever a racing record is broken. The Economist has published a statistical model analysing data from the dawn of the F1 championship to try to shed more light on it; CNN and the BBC's excellent Andrew Benson compared Hamilton's record against Schumacher's; and there are many more. Thousands of hours have been spent stroking chins, creating spreadsheets and making arguments. Yet we will still never get an answer.
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