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Mick Schumacher wins the first Formula 3 race
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Champagne Shower: Mick Schumacher celebrates his victory at Spa. Photo: Thomas Suer / FIA
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
Spa and Schumacher – this has a special meaning. Nearly 26 years after Michael Schumacher's first Formula 1 victory, his son Mick wins Formula 3 for the first time on the Ardennes circuit.
S pa-Francorchamps (dpa) – Mick Schumacher finally did it. The son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher celebrated Saturday his first win in the Formula 3 European Championship at Spa-Francorchamps.
Two days after his first trip in pole position, the 19-year-old athlete was in his 45th Formula 3 race for the first time on the podium atop. In Belgium, his father participated in his first race in Formula 1 and then won his first Grand Prix
"It's great to win at Spa, unfortunately having failed to make the pole yesterday a victory »Said Schumacher Saturday The day before in the second of three races of the weekend at Spa, he had already retired in the first round after a puncture on his Dallara-Mercedes.
It seems that Spa is a good place for the Schumacher family. When I saw the rain this morning, I was already looking forward to: I like a lot rain and drought, "says the son of the Formula One World Champion.
And his talent was also evident in these extremely difficult circumstances. From sixth on the grid, Schumacher stormed a spectacular overtaking in the infamous Red Water corner when he recovered Marcus Armstrong from New Zealand and came in second position
A few meters later, Schumacher emerged from the slipstream. will also overtake Prema's teammate Robert Shwartzman and then control the Russians. "During the overtaking maneuver against Marcus, I was able to attack him from the wake, I had already done a similar maneuver in the first race and so I knew it would work," he said. Schumacher
Schumacher climbed to eighth place (101) despite a flawless round on Friday. "We have been working on us for months and now we've finally done it. has occurred on no other track than at Spa-Francorchamps is a particularly pleasant feeling, "said Schumacher happy.
His father Michael was on the Formula 1 circuit in the Belgian Ardennes August 25, 1991 first Formula 1 race played One year later, he celebrated his first victory on the wet track at Benetton-Ford. The Formula 1 World Champion crashed on December 29, 2013 while skiing in the French Alps. In September 2014, the 49-year-old man returned home to Gland, Switzerland, and has since been examined by the public.
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