30 years after Michael Schumachers Formula 1
Everything started in a barren with two narrow single beds in the Belgian province. For 32 euros, a room was rented in the Auberge Francopole, to experience themselves, as the for Michael Schumacher has been exactly 30 years ago. Four nights spent the later formula 1 record world champion and hero of a whole generation in this youth hostel before moving his first Grand Prix on August 25, 1991 in Spa-Francorchamps. This ended after 500 meters, but it was the memorable start of a unique career. And this started with an emergency. Schumacher's Manager Willi Weber told Team Chief Eddie Jordan that the then 22-year-old knows the legendary course in the Ardennes. But that did not agree. That's why I grabbed a bike to drive a few laps there and I realized the same, what fantastic track that is, said Schumacher later. Only with this trick and a lot of persuasion through Weber, who took more problems with a hotel booking the Triste Room Number Four in the hostel with his protégé, th...