The first race that any pilot disputes in a championship is always special and eternally remembered by the protagonist. A historic moment, to make the great dream you have been fighting for all your life come true, that Mick Schumacher will experiment on March 28 in Sakhir (Bahrain) at the wheel of the Haas VF-21.
The German, who like Carlos Sainz traveled to Fiorano (Italy) at the end of January to get on the Ferrari SF71H and perform a private test with the Prancing Horse, He will not be able to share this significant moment with his father in the city of Manama, who continues to recover at his private residence in Geneva (Switzerland) from very strong accident that he suffered on December 29, 2013 while skiing off-piste between the La Biche and Mauduit areas of the Méribel winter resort (France).
Mick Schumacher to debut in F1 on March 28 at the Bahrain GP
Precisely, Michael Schumacher’s premiere at the Great Circus has been Eddie Jordan’s main topic of conversation on the ‘BBC’. The founder and former owner of Jordan Grand Prix has revealed with a laugh that Willy Webber, the representative of the seven-time champion, blatantly cheated on him in the previous Belgian GP 1991 to convince him that Michael was the perfect replacement for Bertrand Gachot, sentenced to two years jail for spraying a taxi driver with tear gas.
“He cheated on me, and blatantly (laughs). Before the race, I asked him if he had been to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit before. And when you ask a pilot something like that, you don’t mean if he has been there as a tourist. You ask him if he’s been a driver, racing. He, as a pilot, did not know the track. He went to Spa with his father when he was still karting, but he had never driven on that circuit. That makes his accomplishments that weekend even more significant, “recalls Jordan.
It should be noted that the Belgian appointment, where the one from Hürth-Hermülheim achieved the seventh fastest time in the standings, was the only one who played for the Irish formation, since Flavio Briatore in a movement that generated much controversy in the competition, days later he signed Michael giving him a seat as a starting driver at Benetton to replace Roberto Moreno. A team with which he would be proclaimed two-time champion in 1994 and 1995 before packing his bags and signing for Ferrari, where he ended up enlarging his legend in Formula 1.