The media are going nuts. They've missed the minor, but crucial, point that Hamilton won't become world champion until he gets to the end of the season, and he has to do so without being disqualified from the championship. Unlikely to be an issue, but Schumacher managed such a disqualification in 1997
The difference between Schumacher and Hamilton:
Jerez was the last race of the season. In order to win the title for himself Michael *had* to ensure that Villeneuve didn't finish. So he tried pulling the same move on Villeneuve that he did to Hill in Adelaide in 1994 - also the last race of the season. So Schumacher had history there. Plus the FIA under Max Moseley was a very different beast back then.
In Abu Dhabi in 2016, Lewis had to win the race, with Nico some way back. His solution? To back up the pack and hope that someone else either overtook Nico or took him out. Ultimately it didn't quite work, but you have to give the guy the kudos for trying.
Schumacher was like Senna - totally ruthless and rather insensitive. Incidentally, Senna also has a track record for taking other drivers out in attempting to win the world title. Suzuka '89 springs to mind.
Hamilton is more like Prost - uses his brain more rather than trying to take out someone.
Either way, he has no class. He's a surly sulker, a tax avoider, who seems incapable of opening his mouth without putting his foot in it.
No racing driver is perfect - I've been involved in motorsport for twenty something years, both on the engineering and media side of things, and a fan of the sport for far longer than that. Most of not all drivers I got to know (and date) are surly sulkers when things aren't going their way. And in the heat of the moment, things can be said without thinking of the consequences. That's just racing drivers for you. At the end of the day, they're human, just like you or I.
But that's an extremely harsh judgement on someone you don't know.
