Germans have rated seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher their greatest sporting figure of all time, despite his so-far lackluster comeback.
The Bild daily said Thursday it gave readers a choice of 50 candidates after Dirk Nowitzki last weekend became the first German to win the NBA basketball title.
It says more than 56,000 readers responded, and more than 28 percent of them chose Schumacher. In second place was football great Franz Beckenbauer, with just under 13 percent — followed by Nowitzki, with 12.4 percent.
Formula One's reigning German champion, Sebastian Vettel, was 10th with 1.8 percent of the votes.
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Michael Schumacher has won seven Formula 1 championships in his 18-year long career in the sport. He won 5 championships with Ferrari in 5 years consecutively from 2000-2004 while the rest of the two championships were won by him back in 1994 and 1995 with Team Benetton.
Michael has 91 race victories under his belt with 154 podium positions in 274 race starts which means that he has a podium scoring percentage of around 56 percent. It means that out of every two races on average, Schumacher scores a podium in at least one of them. Other than that, he has scored 68 pole positions so far in his career.
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