Reply #30: Sorry, but that's incorrect

[ProudGerman]

As long as his tires are in good shape, he was no where near the performance limits of whatever vehicle he was driving. Any car in the last decade would be perfecty happy, and capable of cruising down a highway right up to triple digit speed. And considering the cars that you can get with a 2.5 Inline 4, he was well under performance limitations. Proper driving technique, including a minimum 3 second following distance, and he'd be anything but a highway menace reigning death and destruction where he went.

Does this give anyone who thinks they have skill a free ticket to try and imitate Michael Schumaker? No, even if you're driving an Enzo, driving with the flow of the traffic is still the safest approach. But saying that a mondern car being driven at 84 miles an hour is dancing out over the edge is laughably wrong.