Former Method 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 a few of the largest names in Method 1 historical past throughout his time on the observe, together with Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Schumacher. But it surely was the latter who Herbert mentioned on the podcast, explaining what the German icon was like when he wasn’t racing.
“He was a very good man, Michael, with an awesome, nice sense of humour, however he by no means confirmed it and he didn’t wish to present it both,” Herbert defined.
“I’ll let you know one story about Michael. My spouse and Corinna (Schumacher’s spouse) bought on very effectively within the early days. We’d finished Brazil and Argentina and got here again to Imola, and my spouse was sitting down within the hospitality (suite). Corinna got here in, mentioned ‘hello’, they usually by no means spoke to one another for the remainder of the yr.
“And I believe that was Michael nearly (considering), as a result of they’re getting on so effectively, they could learn how I click on. So don’t combine collectively. And I discovered that disappointing really that it fed all the way down to the wives, very odd.
“However then you’ll be able to’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 comparable ‘Michael-ish’ sort of mentality that’s there, which could be very totally different to Lewis Hamilton.”
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