Thread: Most Influential Person In Motorsport?

Now here's a question to sink your teeth into - who in your humble opinion has been the most influential person in Formula One. I’ve been considering this for a couple of days, and I’m nowhere near anything like a short list.

For example, you could include Bernie Ecclestone for turning F1 into the commercial beast, and the international success, it is today, or Sid Watkins for improving driver and circuit safety, or even Herman Tilke for shaping racing through designing some of the more modern, and controversial, racetracks. You could even go as far as including some drivers for both their on and off-track contributions – Stewart (three times World Champion, once team owner, safety advocate), Senna (he doesn't need an introduction), and Michael Schumacher (seven times World Champion and a long time advocate of driver safety).

So any ideas because i'm stuck!

Goodness. I think a number of people could rightly claim the award on various grounds. Certainly everybody on your list. You could also add Colin Chapman for basically either coming up with or perfecting the majority of the concepts used in Formula One cars today.

Michael Schumacher,7 time WC in F1 history is the most influential person in motor sport.
He was tremendous with his driving skills & has registered 91 wins.He is still ready to make a comeback for Ferrari at any time.

Fangio, with his 5 titles he did more to put the modern era of F1 on the publics mind than anyone else