24H Nürburgring – Michael Schumacher will drive an F1 on the Nordschleife!

Michael Schumacher will get back behind the wheel of a Formula 1 next May 19! The seven-time world champion, retired since the end of last season, will take the wheel of a Mercedes W02 from 2011 and drive on the Nordschleife (the Northern Loop, Editor's note) at the opening of the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. A way for him to thank all his German fans.

“I have a lot of memories from the Nürburgring and I'm really looking forward to giving my fans and friends from my hometown of Kerpen, which is quite close to the circuit, something they can remember.”, comments Michael Schumacher. “But it will also be a fantastic experience for me to drive a Silver Arrow at the height of technology on the Nordschleife, especially when we know that their legend began here. Taking a ride in a modern Silver Arrow on the most beautiful and demanding circuit in the world, what a brilliant mix! It's every racing driver's dream! », concludes the most successful man in Formula 1.

This is not the first time that Michael Schumacher will encounter the "green hell", as the northern loop of the Nürburgring, which hosted Formula 1 until 1976, is nicknamed. partly on this circuit in 2011 aboard an old Mercedes Stromlinie W196 with which Juan-Manuel Fangio had obtained two world crowns, in 1954 and 1955. In 2007, Nick Heidfeld had already tried this exercise aboard? a BMW Sauber.