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Mick Schumacher: 'My idol is my dad'
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09:24 29/03/2017
Munich - Mick Schumacher has broken his long public silence about his father, admitting the Formula 1 legend and former Ferrari and Mercedes driver is "my idol".

Schumacher, who has just turned 18, is stepping up to the highly competitive European F3 series this year, which is widely regarded as a potential final step before F1.

F1 legend

"My idol is my dad. "Simply because he is the best. He is my role model," he said in an interview for the German broadcaster RTL.

And Schumacher said his goal is clearly to emulate what his father, seven time world champion Michael Schumacher, achieved.

Offer from Ferrari


Mick said: "My goal is to become F1 world champion."

Mick is already working as a brand ambassador for Mercedes, but he also has an open invitation to join Ferrari's young driver programme.

He said: "I'm doing it my way for the moment. What the future brings, we'll see."
 

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Any news on his dad how he is now
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Dont think its any good given the silence. A cousin of mine had bad brain injury when 19yo and never the same. He is paralyzed for half body and his personality has changed a lot too.

I dont think we will ever get any information about Michael, as the recovery will be way too long, even decades.

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Rally Tour De Corse 2003, From shakedown to startline:

Just exactly how did Petter's technicians manage to turn his badly damaged rally car into a winning machine?

After two weeks of meticulous preparation at the 555 Subaru team's headquarters in Banbury, Petter Solberg's Impreza WRC2003 was in bad shape after an accident on the shakedown in Corsica threatened to end his rally before it had even begun.

Solberg was negotiating a right-hand corner near the start of the 7km practice stage, when he hit a patch of gravel and slid off the road. In a series of impacts, the car sustained damage to the front and rear ends as well as to the driver's side rear quarter panel following a collision that was so hard it broke a telegraph pole.

Co-driver Phil Mills was the first to notify the team of the incident, with a telephone call to Principal Engineer Pierre Genon. Once it was clear that he and Solberg were uninjured, Operations Director Paul Howarth co-ordinated efforts to ensure Petter's car was ready to start the event on the Friday morning as planned.

Here's how that plan worked out:

Thursday 16 October:

11:20 Petter & Phil's accident occurs.

11:30 A group of 555 Subaru team members go to evaluate nearby car repair workshops.

12:30 A recovery truck delivers Petter's car to the 555 SWRT service area in Ajaccio.

13:00 An initial assessment of damage is undertaken while No.1 mechanic, John Mclean and Petter's engineer, Pierre Genon are dispatched to assess the facilities at the chosen workshop near Les Moulins Blanc, 3kms outside Ajaccio. Engine, gearbox and suspension removed from car.

15:30 The bodyshell is loaded onto transporter truck and taken to workshop. Six of Petter's crew of technicians (who originally took two weeks to build the car in the UK) are joined by one of Tommi's crew, two parts technicians, and the three staff from the local workshop. Simon Steele, the team's Technical Support Manager and Pierre Genon supervise the work.

16:00 The shell is secured to a body bench. Repair work begins to the front and rear chassis legs, sill section, rear wheel arch and C-pillar.

21:30 The bodywork is completed allowing the re-assembly to commence.

22:30 The gearbox and new engine is fitted.

Friday 17 October:

2:30 All major mechanical components including all suspension is fitted.

3:50 New wing, bumpers, boot lid, rear spoiler, rear door, radiator package and intercooler are fitted.

4:00 Principal Engineer Pierre Genon takes the car for a road test.

4:15 The car driven back to the service area in Ajaccio where the team fine-tune the suspension alignment and set-up using service area facilities.

7:00 Stickers and other cosmetic work is completed. The overnight crew take a break and are relieved by fresh technicians.

7:30 Petter and Phil arrive in service.

7:45 Scrutineers re-check and approve the car.

9:11 Petter and Phil start the rally as scheduled.

Sunday 19 October:

14:30 Petter and Phil take the top spot on the podium after winning the Tour de Corse!
 

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[FONT=&quot]When asked how confident he felt of a successful full run down the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in his specially prepared Subaru WRX STI, professional rally and stunt driver Mark Higgins responded, "50/50." In reality, he was probably being generous.

It wasn't supposed to be so death-defying. In fact, Subaru's original plan was to have Higgins make several runs down the icy slope, some with journalists in the passenger seat. We were among those who traveled all the way to Switzerland for the chance to experience an automotive bobsled ride. One look at the run's famous Horseshoe Corner was all it took for us to second-guess that idea. Well, that and our pesky sense of self preservation.

Higgins, though, is one of those rare humans to have been born without that fear-of-death gene. Not only is the Manx driver a professional stuntman – his resume includes sequences for Daniel Craig's James Bond – he also won the British Rally Championship three times and is the four-wheeled record holder at the famed Isle of Man Snaefell Mountain Course. So, when Higgins says some sort of vehicular stunt has only half a chance at success, well, let's just say that most mortals would say something more akin to "a snowball's chance in hell."

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On the topic of snow and balls, it's worth noting that the timing of Subaru's bobsled run wasn't set by choice. The Olympic Bobrun hosts regular events every winter through late February or early March. Since the track at St. Moritz is the only run in the world without an artificial cooling system, warm weather means no sledding. Combine those two facts and you end up with a very narrow window in which Subaru could go about making the modified track and a WRX STI actually fit together. Enter the boffins at Prodrive.

The British engineering firm first started modifying vehicles for racing in 1984. By 1990, Prodrive was focused on turning turbocharged Imprezas into championship winners for the likes of Colin McRae, Richard Burns, and Petter Solberg. So it comes as little surprise that Subaru turned back to Prodrive to figure out how to modify a 2015 WRX STI in a way that would make it survive the pounding it would sustain on a bob run.

For the record, this isn't just any 2015 WRX STI. It's actually the same car Higgins used in 2014 to set a lap record at the Isle of Man. That particular record no longer stands – Higgins and Subaru set a time of 17 minutes, 35 seconds last year in a specially prepared 550-horsepower monster 'Rex – but saying that this car holds the second-fastest lap at Snaefell is nothing to sneeze at. After sitting mothballed for two years at a museum in New Jersey, Higgins' chariot was shipped back across the Atlantic so that Prodrive could get to work. A scant few weeks' worth of modifications include a full safety cage, springs and shocks stiffer than railway ties, and tires with 400 individual tungsten lugs apiece.

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The STI's most obvious modification, though, consists of a steel latticework of buttresses and brackets that run around the car's lower perimeter and brace against the bodywork at all four corners. Large bumpers that were milled out of nylon blocks and attached to the framework through holes drilled in the sheetmetal were supposed to bear the brunt of damage to the beautiful blue WRX as it careened down the course, but that didn't really happen when reality and gravity combined forces and took over.

That's not to say that Prodrive's work was in vain. Far from it – Higgins walked away from the wreckage in one piece. And, after just a little bit of demangling that may or may not have involved a couple of well-placed booted kicks to the hood and fender, the semi-crushed Subaru was turned around and drove all the way back up to the top of the bob run for another photo op. Pay close attention to the after effects and you'll see damage that extends all the way to the A-pillars and roof. Good thing for that roll cage, and great driving from Higgins to somehow wrangle the WRX back onto its four studded tires. The video above gives you a good taste of what he experienced.

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It was a crazy idea, and one that very nearly ended in disaster. But that seems rather fitting, considering how the sport of bobsledding was invented in the first place. According to local lore, the bobsleigh was invented in St. Moritz by some British chaps in the late 1800s who drank enough beer that the idea of welding some sleds together and sliding down a winding mountain pass sounded like jolly good fun.

Now, we're not going to suggest that autosledding is going to be the next Olympic sport (mostly because the smart money's on the X Games). But if it did, something tells us that Higgins would be the ringleader, Subaru would be his sponsor, and a cask or two of British bitters would be to blame. Oh, and after witnessing the spectacle firsthand, we'd also hazard a guess that ratings would be through the roof.


source - http://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/17/subaru-wrx-sti-bobsled-st-moritz-video/


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