Yea no question Schumacher was good, very german in his way of doing things, very methodical but as you say, had massive help.
Ferrari had more money then anyone else,
They tested more then anyone else,
Very close relationship with Bridgestone,
Rory Byrne (who somehow many people don´t know about) a genius in the same sense as Newey.
Funny thought about the TCS.
Senna was adamant that they ran traction control on the Benettons.
Yea it was insanity packaged into a small area, first year was a test year so horrible reliability but the year after they had the most powerful engine out of all the teams.
2000 - 810hp
2001 - 880hp
2002 - 895hp
2003 - 940hp
2004 - 940hp
2005 - 950hp
2005 they ran the same engine as in 2004. They had a much more ruthless engine but FIA changed the rules suddenly so they scrapped the whole engine.
then you had rumors of them running 1,000 horses on Monza. But it´s all rumors.
This one had 880hp.