Watch as Seven times world champion Michael Schumacher takes football icon Zinedine Zidane on a ride in his Ferrari FXX

Janmeyjay Shukla | 05/03/2022
Watch as Seven times world champion Michael Schumacher takes football icon Zinedine Zidane on a ride in his Ferrari FXX

Let us look at a throwback when F1 GOAT Michael Schumacher met footballing GOAT Zinedine Zidane for a ride at the French Circuit in 2007.

Two icons from the footballing world meet each other. Former World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane recently retired from the footballing world after the 2006 world cup.

Schumacher also retired at the end of the 2006 campaign to serve as a test driver and adviser for Ferrari.

Quick laps in the Ferrari FXX

Magny- Cours’ lap record is still in the hand of the former Ferrari World Champion. The German won the 2006 French Grand Prix for eight-time. He did attend the races after retiring but had not been on the track since he called it to quit.

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Hot weather in 2007, both the men sat in the black Ferrari FXX sportscar owned by Schumacher. This car is a special edition owned by Regenmeister was gifted by Ferrari as a personal token of appreciation. A number of personal touches including his initials dotted around the interiors of the cars.

The laps were a fundraising effort supported by both the men for the ICM brain and spine charity.

Michael Schumacher left Zidane with amazing reactions

After two quick laps at the circuit, Zidane felt wowed after riding beside the German. He totally understood what it meant to drive an F1 car at the grandest stage of them all.

“It was a strong feeling, in fact, I felt a little like getting out of the car. But it was a great pleasure to be with Michael Schumacher,” Zidane explained.

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Noticeably, neither of the men wore crash helmets during the laps. Zidane refused to wear the helmets. “For myself, I pretty much know what I’m doing and know when I have to have one,” Schumacher concluded.

Post Edited By: Samriddhi Jaiswal
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Janmeyjay Shukla

Janmeyjay Shukla is an artist who contributes his expressions through words as an F1 writer and editor at The SportsRush. He is an F1 historian who has been watching the sport since he was a baby. Passed on from generation to generation, he has seen the prime of Michael Schumacher to the rise of Max Verstappen. A Mercedes fan from the days of the Brawn GP era, the sport runs in his blood. Besides Formula One, Janmeyjay is a Marketing Head and a musician who loves to sing and play Rock & Pop songs on guitar. His love for sports will never die as he is a loyal Liverpool Football Club fan as well!

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