Former Components 1 racer and Sky Sports activities pundit Johnny Herbert joins hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty on the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round to debate his profession, what Michael Schumacher was like away from the observe, and his dream drive.
Herbert is without doubt one of the UK’s most recognisable faces in F1 due to his 11 years of racing on the grid and his decade-long profession as a pundit for Sky Sports activities.
The 59-year-old reveals all about what Schumacher was like off the grid, the way it felt to win a house grand prix at Silverstone, and his time within the GT Academy.
Johnny Herbert on what Michael Schumacher was like away from the observe
Herbert competed with among the largest names in Components 1 historical past throughout his time on the observe, together with Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Schumacher. However it was the latter who Herbert mentioned on the podcast, explaining what the German icon was like when he wasn’t racing.
“He was man, Michael, with an important, nice sense of humour, however he by no means confirmed it and he didn’t need to present it both,” Herbert defined.
“I’ll inform you one story about Michael. My spouse and Corinna (Schumacher’s spouse) acquired on very effectively within the early days. We’d performed Brazil and Argentina and got here again to Imola, and my spouse was sitting down within the hospitality (suite). Corinna got here in, stated ‘hello’, and so they by no means spoke to one another for the remainder of the 12 months.
“And I believe that was Michael nearly (considering), as a result of they’re getting on so effectively, they may learn how I click on. So don’t combine collectively. And I discovered that disappointing truly that it fed right down to the wives, very odd.
“However then you possibly can’t take away what he achieved. It’s a part of the make up. We see that in some regard with Max (Verstappen); there’s a really related ‘Michael-ish’ kind of mentality that’s there, which could be very totally different to Lewis Hamilton.”
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