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Irvine: Today's drivers are good but not on Schumacher's level

Speaking to Motorsport-Total, former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine has labeled Sebastian Vettel an 'arrogant, well educated kid' while insisting that no driver of the current generation is in the league of his former teammate and Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher.   Irvine was a Ferrari driver from 1996 until 1999, years he spent playing second fiddle to Schumacher at Maranello. The Irishman insists that Schumacher is in another class when compared to Vettel. He explained, 'Michael was quite exceptional. Even when things were going really bad, he worked with Todt to hold the whole thing together, which was quite amazing.'   'In my day there was, after [Ayrton] Senna's death,...
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