Schumacher: Leading Championship is Only Right

Michael Schumacher believes he deserves to be ahead in the Championship after scoring his fourth win of the season in Canada last Sunday.

The five-time World Champion took the Championship lead from McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen, who has scored only one win this year but who has benefited from the new points system, which rewards consistency.

The victory also helped Schumacher score the 999th point of his Formula One career.

"It's certainly a great achievement," Schumacher said of his points haul. "But I am more interested in what happened (in the race). It was a really important race for us, and the win was crucial.

"Now we head both championships and in my opinion this is only right. I have won four races and Kimi only one. It seems quite odd that with these results only three points divide us. But this is the natural consequence of the new regulations that were introduced for precisely this reason.

"In any case, we are ahead and this really pleases me."

Five-time champion and Ferrari driver Schumacher scored the 68th win of his career in Montreal after outfoxing brother Ralf, of Williams, and afterwards claimed it was one of the best of his career.

"Winning in these conditions is all the more satisfying because the race for the title becomes all the more predictable but at the same time, tighter," Schumacher said on Ferrari's official website. "From what we have seen so far, the different surfaces have tended to favour one or other type of tyre.

"Saying this, it is hard to predict which circuits are suited to Bridgestone and which to Michelin, so every race becomes vital."