When the lamps is turned off to the Chinese Grand Prix 14. april is the Formula 1-history 1000. grandprix. A driver has won 91 of them; the syvdobbelte world champion Michael Schumacher.
Both he and the current president of the international motorsportsforbund (FIA), Jean Todt, pointing to the same race, as the most significant for them personally. Quite understandable of Japan Grand Prix in 2000, when Michael Schumacher broke the 21-year curse, and secured the first kørermesterskab for Ferrari since Jody Scheckter in 1979.
– I am often asked about my favorite contest, and my answer is always the same: Japan, 2000. On the day, 8. October, at the Suzuka took Michael Schumacher to his third WORLD title and his first with Ferrari, the team I had been in charge for seven years, says Jean Todt in the latest edition of the FIA magazine Auto.
As Michael and I walked up the stairs that led to the podium, I said to him that from this moment on would our racing life will never be the same. It turned out to be true, and fortunately there were many other great and memorable races, but Suzuka 2000 is still my first choice, he says.
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the Euphoria on the podium in Japan 2000-the season’s penultimate race. Photo: YEAR KAMBAYSHI/Ritzau Scanpix
At the subsequent press conference and rolled the tears down Schumacher’s cheeks. Because of its american singer, actor, he has not been able to participate in a second interview, but contribute to the magazine with an excerpt from his book ‘Michael Schumacher – the Driving Force’, as manager Sabine Kehm has made available.
– In Japan, when I crossed the line, crazy! Later, I was again and again asked what my dominant feeling was at the time, and at no time have I been able to find the right words. I honestly think that it is indescribable.
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– I did not know what I should put on with all the happiness, I felt myself suddenly caught in my car, locked up in my Ferrari, as if I was about to burst.
I struck so hard on the steering wheel, they thought it was broken, and as a precaution was replaced. It was so great a redemption. I had finally made it after so many years of disappointments. On the in-lap, when it was all over, I just kept running. I could not hold back the tears, and it was as if I stood beside myself and so at the moment. Almost as if I was someone else, remember Schumaches.
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