In 2003 Michael retained his title as World Champion for the fourth year in a row! Once again car number one belonged to the number one. At Suzuka on 12 October 2003, Michael clinched his sixth world championship title. It took a long time to achieve the fourth in 2000, but since then he has taken four in a row. Michael threby surpassed Senna’s (3), Prost’s (4) and Fangio’s (5) number of titles. He finished eighth at Suzuka to put himself 2 points clear of Finn, Raikkonen, who finished second. To take the title Raikkonen would have had to finish second with Michael ninth or lower.

Michael celebrates win with Ferrari F1 team, Japan 2000