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Ciao Felipe.
Company car?
No, GT. Old and limited.
Good to see you.
Nice choice of wheels. Classic.
Hi, MichÃ¨le.
Hello! How are you? Nice to see you.
Nice to see you. You need help with the bags?
Tom.
Not yet.
Hey Mika!
-Hi! -Great to see you.
Hey, Mika.
Long time.
It was a nice journey to come here.
-Yeah. Good. -Beautiful English weather.
Like always.
Iâ€™m from a very humble background in that sense of
my father could not afford to support me in karting.
Iâ€™m home born on a gas station.
And my dad was racing cars, touring cars...
Ford Escort, M1s, both on asphalt and off road.
So, when I was wearing nappies I was taken to races and watching.
So, itâ€™s kind of in my blood.
And then sometimes I was driving the kart around the gas station
when people were coming in for refuelling.
For me it was completely different
because my surroundings were not at all motorsport.
Youâ€™re not born in a gas station like me?
No, not at all. I was born in the fields of rose and jasmine.
So, itâ€™s completely different.
My family was growing flowers for the perfume in Grasse,
which is the capital of perfume.
I started driving by myself.
I was 14.
Just because, you know, it was fun,
I wanted to... I was a young girl, very active, very sportive
and ready for any adventures,
so, I wanted to move the car, I donâ€™t know why.
So one day I took my fatherâ€™s Citroen 2CV,
you know, the small car.
And with a friend I said we have to move the car.
So, I started to drive.
And my father saw the car passing through the kitchen window.
And he said, â€œSomebody is stealing my car or what?â€
And then he realized it was me.
For me, a car was independence, freedom, moving around,
going travelling, but nothing to do with motorsport.
Motorsport arrived in my life when I was 21.
And you?
My father gave me a little motocross when I was 6 years old.
And I was asking him, â€œI want to race, I want to race.â€
And then he was a little bit afraid, because I was starting to jump.
I was starting to, you know, to get some scrapes.
So, then he said,
â€œI think itâ€™s better four wheels than two wheels,â€
so, when I was eight years old,
he brought me to, like. a little karting school.
Whatâ€™s your name?
-Felipe. -Felipe who?
Massa.
I remember when I drove that day, I was like, in love.
And, itâ€™s unbelievable because when I started racing, I knew,
this is what I want to do.
I was never thinking about other things.
I grew up in Interlagos, near the race track,
watching all the races in the past, in the grandstand.
At the time, Senna was like a God in Brazil, you know.
Three times World Champion.
No one could even dream to follow him.
Yes, well I started motor racing, I think,
I was around six. Six years old in karting.
And of course, as a kid, you want to go flat out.
You like the speed.
But it didnâ€™t start really well.
You know, the very first time when I went to a go-kart track...
The place was called Keimola. A very beautiful track.
Then I sat in a go-kart and said, â€œThis is going to be fun.â€
And of course, I went flat out.
You know, full gas immediately. And I turned in too early.
And I touched the tire.
And of course, the whole go-kart went...
-Really... - Upside down.
And Iâ€™m lying there, you know, six year old kid
and I can see upside-down
and my parents are running flat out.
â€œOh my God! Our dear son is dead!â€
And of course, my parents were shocked.
I remember their faces. They were like â€œOh my God!â€
And it was, actually it was good, what happened,
because I immediately realized that way,
you know, this is a dangerous sport.
Another driver, who isnâ€™t racing for Germany
although he is German and is even the favorite,
here at the Kerpen track is Michael Schumacher.
Youâ€™re racing for Luxembourg. Why?
Because Germany requires qualifying races, which cost money.
And if we get eliminated,
then we wonâ€™t qualify to race in the World Championship.
But weâ€™re the only one racing for Luxembourg.
It doesnâ€™t cost any money and weâ€™ve automatically qualified.
And who told you all this?
My sponsor.
I remember seeing you in Denmark when we started in karting.
I remember it was-- I have the picture-- itâ€™s in Ribe.
And I remember this white, or it was white once, I guess.
Your leather suit. It was kind of oily...
The weather wasn't so good either, I don't think.
-It was white with blue stripes-- --Blue stripes, yeah.
So, you guys raced together?
Yeah, we did.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
And I remember taking notice that
hey, we have to watch out for this guy.
At the front, the Dane, Tom Kristensen,
winner of the semifinal,
with Mike HÃ¤kkinen lining up second.
I remember that. It was Formula Nordic, I think.
-Yeah. Itâ€™s true. -The junior category.
Yeah, I remember that one.
We did many races there, where actually we touched.
So maybe we shouldnâ€™t touch on that one.
Yes but itâ€™s okay!
But the racing was good. And any of us could have won.
Because I literally think we changed position eight times in the final.
And we were really, really close.
But this guy doesnâ€™t give up, I tell you.
End of '72, I started to do Monte Carlo as a co-driver.
My father loved rallies, loved cars, so what he couldnâ€™t do,
he offered to me. He said, â€œI know you like to drive.
To see you in the passengerâ€™s seat, you know, I donâ€™t like it.
Why donâ€™t you drive?â€
I said, â€œOkay, but what I will do?â€
He said, â€œOkay, I will buy you a car.
I will pay for good conditions for one year.
and if you are good enough, you will continue.
If not, you will stop.â€
I said, â€œOkay, I will try to show you that I can.â€
Right. And full power to the left. Right 85. Narrows in again.
-Alright. -You can hear the wind.
Yes, itâ€™s windy outside.
What a conquest.
Okay... One more. No need. That looks bad.
Hey, thank you very much, you give...
And you?
-Over. -Iâ€™m out.
-19. -19.
25 is more, no?
I joined, in 1990, West Surrey Racing.
-Dick Bennetts. -Dick Bennetts, yeah.
It was a very good year, indeed.
You know, winning a British championship.
At the end of the year there is a race,
the F3 race in Macau,
where all the top drivers come from around the world.
Everything went perfectly. You know, all the practice,
Iâ€™m quite pleased because my pole position is nearly one second
in front of Michael Schumacher.
His time is really fantastic, but it is not impossible.
There are two races.
So, I won the first race, everything went perfectly.
So, I won the first race by about two seconds.
I was leading in the second race
and I made a mistake or something.
-Why are you always turning right-- -I donâ€™t know!
-and never left? -because it feels natural!
Because itâ€™s a way to remember!
So, Michael was able to overtake me.
So, if I would had finished behind him just inside of two seconds,
I would have won overall the whole race, so...
So there is like one or two laps to go and Michael is leading,
and he made a big mistake
in a really high-speed right-hand corner
and I thought, â€œWhat I can do? I have to overtake him.â€
He was so slow, so I really got close to him.
Catching a tow.
And you know, going to overtake, and I could just...
And I could see his eyes in the mirror looking...
I knew I see him in my mirrors
and then when I see him right behind he closes up on me.
And then he goes off the gas and he stays behind me.
And in this time, he closed up, he closed up, and I see it,
and I go to the right side.
In this moment, he wanted to overtake me
and heâ€™s so quick, in this moment, that he couldnâ€™t brake.
Lost the whole race. Terrible moment.
Then in 1991 I joined Formula 1. Team Lotus.
Team Lotus, Peter Collins, signed me to race there.
-Then the hard work started. -Then it started.
Schumacher was available this weekend,
he had no other commitments.
Iâ€™ve seen him in Formula 3
or the team has this attitude to give youth a chance
We think itâ€™s a progressive way
to see what the potential of Schumacher is for the future.
Iâ€™m really happy. With this car you can do this qualifying time.
You know, the car feels really good and itâ€™s a lot of fun to drive.
And also for the time, Iâ€™m really happy.
Iâ€™m convinced, and my lawyers have advised me,
that we have two signed legal agreements with Michael Schumacher.
There was some points where Eddie and me canâ€™t agree.
Or I canâ€™t agree with Eddie, let me say it like this.
And I canâ€™t accept this.
I wouldnâ€™t sign a contract which was not good for me.
And I got a contract from Benetton which was good for me.
It was really interesting to follow people
who have competed within karting,
including this man, progressing in motorsport.
I was racing but it was tough times.
I got a chance at Brno, with an older car.
Michael was at that race and his career was on fire.
From Denmark we really... there was nobody,
there was no foundation to help for us Danish drivers.
It was basically three years
where I managed to get a job at my first application.
As a bank clerk.
At one time, they asked me in the middle of the summer
if I had a truck license.
And I said, â€œYes of course. Iâ€™m a driver.â€
And then I was driving the bank bus
for some time, around in small cities.
So, it wasnâ€™t until the beginning of 1991,
I got the call from an F3 team in Germany.
And I won the championship.
And then in the last race, in Hockenheim,
I beat your lap record of the year before.
Of course, my car was more sophisticated, more developed.
-No, but it meant so much to me-- -Of course! No, of course.
Hey, come on, you guys are racing in Formula 1...
Yes, Yes, Yes. I fully understand.
So, I had to find anything I could,
-any little proof I could... -Yes.
that at least I had a little bit of talent!
Tom Kristensen, whatâ€™s going to happen next?
The future, what does it hold?
Itâ€™s going to be really, really hard.
Iâ€™m Danish and in Denmark motorsport isnâ€™t a very big thing.
Iâ€™ve spoken to a lot of people but, up until now,
there havenâ€™t been any solid offers from sponsors.
And I went to Japan.
I spent five years in Japan, driving different things.
-No. One more. 22. -Yeah.
-So... -Over.
My father was very important
because he was helping me to find the money to go to Europe.
Then I won the Italian and European Championships on the same year.
So then, I had many people trying to get me under contract.
And this guy organized a meeting for me in Maranello with Ferrari.
And I didnâ€™t know,
but they were watching everything that I was doing,
testing, telemetry, racing... everything!
And then they said, â€œOkay, what we're going to do is that
we will sign a contract with you, as a young driver for Ferrari.â€
That had never happened before.
â€œBut you cannot tell anybody. So, it needs to be secret.â€
So, then I signed a contract for eight years with Ferrari
and I couldnâ€™t say, I mean, I signed the contract with Ferrari,
and I could not tell anybody!
Only my family. That was really hard.
Frustrating.
And then I race with Sauber--
--Ferrari engines--
--Ferrari engines.
And then I had this call saying that Ferrari took the decision
and I was the driver that they decided on.
So I raced 2006 for Ferrari.
And for me it was like a dream come true.
Iâ€™m really, really happy and ready for this challenge.
For me, when I finished my amateur time with Alpine-Renault,
I got a phone call from Fiat France
and I did three years with them. I was a full-time Works Driver.
-Did Jean Todt co-pilot for you? -We were in the same period.
-Okay. -Yeah. But he was co-driving,
-not in the same car. -not with me, no.
No no, he was with the top driver at that time.
And then before the end of the season,
I got another phone call.
But this one was a little bit different.
First, they were talking in English
and, of course, my English was zero.
I understoodâ€¦ "Audi."
I understood the German accent.
I understood "four-wheel drive."
Yes, because, Quattro.
And I understood "World Championship."
AUDI FACTORY Ingolstadt, Germany, 1980
And I said yes. I said yes, immediately. Yes.
Yes, yes! And so, they invited me to Ingolstadt.
I remember that they proposed me to drive with Hannu Mikkolawho was...
...first driver.
And I didnâ€™t ask for money or anything.
I just said yes and I signed.
It was fantastic.
-I can go fast? -Yes!
I had come back from Japan and I was driving in Formula 3000
and I was leading the championship. And I got the phone call.
It was Ralf JÃ¼ttner from Germany.
And he represented Joest Racing,
and he said, â€œTom. Itâ€™s Wednesday evening, can I talk to you?
Le Mans is the following weekend and we are entering a car
and we are going down there in a few days.â€
Friday morning, I flew down to Wald-Michelbach
and entered Joest Racing.
And the car that they entered
was for Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johansson.
And the team had just left for Le Mans.
And then over in the corner there was a monocoque,
and there was one mechanic, he was sweeping the floor.
So, I jumped up and sat down in the seat.
And I heard them speaking German
that it was the seat from Michele, from the test they had done.
And hearing that I said,
â€œMaybe if you could put the brake pedal a little bit back,
then for me it would be perfect.â€
The mechanic, JÃ¼rgen, an old guy,
he puts his face down close to me, pretending to whisper,
and then he says very loud, he said:
â€œHey! In our team, der schnellste bestimmt!"
"The fastest decides in our team." And I was a little bit, alright,
I better sign the contract fast. Thatâ€™s pretty rough!
But Le Mans is much more than the race.
Both Stefan and Michele were great, but, particularly Michele
as he knew both the race and the car a bit more.
He was never telling me what to do,
even though I came with no experience of Le Mans or the car.
I was pretty nervous getting into the car, initially.
In my third stint, it was even starting to get into the sunset
and the sun was in your eyes.
When I was driving at night,
it was close to 3 a.m.,
and I knew that was gonna be the key,
it just hit me at that moment and I understood I was on a team
which had a chance of fighting for the podium.
Lap times were getting better.
Tom Kristensen did four stints in a row
and heâ€™s still blasting times here.
I kept going and suddenly on the radio,
Ralf JÃ¼ttner, the team manager,
came on and he said: â€œSchnellste Runde. Schnellste Runde, Tom.â€
It means, "fastest lap."
A lap later he said,
â€œLap record! Lap record!
Keep it steady young man! Keep it steady!â€
When you get a German to speak to you in English...
I really was happy.
We caught and passed one of the Works cars
and won the race.
Iâ€™d never done anything like that before.
Nothing took so much out of me
like the Le Mans 24 hours.
I found JÃ¼rgen.
And I just put a finger in JÃ¼rgenâ€™s back and I said,
â€œJÃ¼rgen, if thereâ€™s going to be a next race,
can you move the brake pedal back a little bit?â€
The call and the win happened in a short time for me.
But it took a long time coming!
Go Michelle!
AUDI QUATTRO!!!
Rallying is a very endurance discipline.
You have to drive night and day.
For example, in special stages the average
is around 1200 kilometers.
It's really long.
So, it's 2000 to 3000 kilometers, depending on the event.
-So, itâ€™s... Itâ€™s long. -Really long.
-Yeah, the cars, you don't want them to...
Right, so you have to take care of the carsâ€¦
And they're not so comfortable.
And you have to take care of yourself.
Isn't there a car that can go uphill? Quick! Mamma Mia!
The role of the co-driver is very important.
We never mention enough how important it is, in my opinion.
And Fabrizia was fantastic with me. Really great help.
You need a really good co-driver to give you the rhythm.
Itâ€™s very important.
We started the first season in 1981, with Audi,
and nearly at the end of the season in San Remo.
You know San Remo was mixed gravel and tarmac.
So, two days, one night, on gravel in Tuscany.
And after a very big battle
with Ari Vatanen and Henri Toivonnen...
Ah, very fast drivers.
I was leading the rally for the first time.
By a few seconds, 30 seconds, I think, something like that.
So, of course first time, a lot of pressure,
a lot of nervousness and I couldnâ€™t sleep.
And we had four or five hours to relax in San Remo.
And on that last night, we had a very long stage,
50 kilometers around San Remo, on asphalt.
And I was sure something would happen
because Ari didnâ€™t want to be beaten by me.
I looked at Fabrizia and I said to her,
â€œOne of us will make a mistake.
So, we will start as if it was the first stage of the rally.â€
And I concentrated and drove as if it was the first stage
without pushing too hard.
And Ari made the mistake.
So, finally I won the rally.
And I just remember, of course, it was fantastic
and the mechanics went crazy.
They put flowers on my hood and everything,
It was really a hard time and a very good time.
Because it was really incredible.
First time a woman winning a World Championship Rally.
And I am still the only one-- unfortunately.
I was with Lotus for two years. So, then what happened?
I got the phone call from Ron Dennis.
And I was happy to be with the McLaren team.
Absolutely. Great big team and really professional.
But then the '94 season came. No victories.
'95, no victories. '96, no victories.
-Oh la, la. This is...
So, it was... it was very difficult
because people started wondering
â€œIs this guy good enough to win?
Is he good enough for McLaren?â€
So, it was a tough time.
And of course, at the same time, you know...
Michael Schumacher, you know, when he...
-He was on a roll. -He was.
Yes, he was flat out.
So I knew my performance level,
where I was, compared to him.
And it was, it was quite...
-Frustrating. -Yeah!
Frustrating to see him winning the world championship.
If you win on Sunday,
youâ€™ll be a new King of Germany, the first one...
Weâ€™ll talk about this on Sunday evening.
Out goes Schumacher!
The German is out of the Australian Grand Prix!
Iâ€™m quite happy in Benetton at the moment.
Ferrari would be very nice to drive for
as well as McLaren and Mercedes.
And Williams team is very successful as well.
So, there are four good opportunities.
And I am going to see and find out
where Iâ€™m going to drive next year.
Enzo Ferrari handpicked
Luca Montezemolo to run Ferrari
In 1993, Ferrari President Luca Montezemolo hired Jean Todt
In 1996, Jean Todt brought Michael Schumacher to Ferrari
And Michael Schumacher wins the Spanish Grand Prix
after an absolutely superlative drive
to bring the great Maranello concern
back right to the front of Formula One.
The year 19â€¦ I would say, 96/97,
then we started seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
The whole team really started focusing
on developing the car to be better.
In â€™97, I had a first chance
to win a Grand Prix in the last Grand Prix in Jerez.
Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher,
were fighting for the Championship. And it didnâ€™t end up so nice.
I want to see a straight fight between Jacques and myself
and thatâ€™s what I want to see. I want to win the race
and I want to win the Championship that way.
Not by any kind of accident or whatever.
Thatâ€™s not my goal.
Villeneuve gets away
and Schumacher gets away better!
Mika HÃ¤kkinen is up there. Fantastic start!
-Heâ€™s through! -Oh, yes!
That didnâ€™t work, Michael!
You hit the wrong part of him, my friend!
If Villeneuve can just keep going,
in the points, heâ€™s won the World Championship.
Thereâ€™s Michael looking down the track
to see if Villeneuve is coming round.
Remember Michael looking through the fence of Adelaide
to see if Damon was coming round.
Well, I think heâ€™s going to see Villeneuve
coming round and round and round.
So, it gave me a great opportunity then to get the lead.
Ah, you see my hands again?
It just changed now. To the other side.
And some team orders.
Mika HÃ¤kkinen has yet to win a Grand Prix!
And the Finn has driven in 95 of them already.
He can smell victory!
Keep concentrating, Jacques,
because HÃ¤kkinen is immediately behind.
Last lap. Last lap.
Patrick Head has just walked down and into the McLaren garage,
obviously, to have a word with them down there.
-There he goes! -Heâ€™s let him through.
Heâ€™s coming up to the last corner.
HÃ¤kkinen is going to win the European Grand Prix!
And Jacques Villeneuve settles for third place
in the World Championship of 1997.
Wow!
It took me seven years to win in a Grand Prix.
-So, it took long time. -Long time.
It was a great victory.
Finally, the champagne.
And it was great to win there, in last Grand Prix,
because I was a winner all winter.
So, it gave me a good feeling, good confidence.
Anybody who's watched you and Mika HÃ¤kkinen
come to each race, every year, try to get just one win.
It may be a championship that was at stake
but for Mika HÃ¤kkinen,
itâ€™s the most important day of his career.
Itâ€™s the last one. Itâ€™s fantastic. Itâ€™s really, really good.
It gives us a very good place for the next season. Itâ€™s fantastic.
If I wouldnâ€™t have won there, in â€˜97,
I think I would have lost maybe my motivation.
It was such a long time.
I braked on the maximum and then he braked even later,
which as I said,
with this braking point I wouldnâ€™t have make the corner
and he wouldnâ€™t have made the corner.
So, he used me a little bit as a braking on top.
But, well, as I said before,
I probably wouldnâ€™t have done anything different.
Villeneuve was excellent.
That was the only point he could have gone through.
Schumacher was taken by surprise,
and didn't think he'd be attacked like that,
taking the corner as wide as he did.
If you want to avoid being overtaken, you stay tight,
or close the gap a lot earlier.
Opinion has turned against Schumacher,
in his native Germany and in Italy, the home of the Ferrari team.
All of the racing press
has some pretty uncomplimentary things to say about him,
and the Italian press say that Ferrari should sack him
and that he should apologize.
I never said I know everything about Formula 1
and the case proved that Iâ€™m a human being as everyone else
and, unfortunately, I make mistakes.
That was one of my mistakes.
I donâ€™t do many. But it was one.
I couldnâ€™t give to all the Tifosis
and the Ferrari team what they expected me to deliver.
And thatâ€™s something, Iâ€™m very sorry about.
In 2006, I had the best day of my life.
Racing in Formula 1, in Ferrari,
itâ€™s like a dream come true, definitely.
Michael was my teammate.
He was just an unbelievable driver,
at the best moment of his career.
But I took the pole position!
Go! RaikÃ¶nnen on the right, Massa to the left.
The Brazilian Grand Prix of 2006 is underway.
Leading the race, I was quite confident in first position.
Massa, 2.5 seconds faster than anybody else on the race track.
Massa wins the Brazilian Grand Prix!
Here he comes across the start-finish line now
and he thoroughly deserves it.
An absolutely brilliant performance!
Look at this crowd. Theyâ€™re going absolutely bananas!
The first Brazilian since Ayrton Senna, in â€˜93,
to win his home Grand Prix.
It was such important moment for me,
that Michael was so close, was so warm,
to celebrate my victory together. So, I will never forget.
It was definitely the most incredible day of my career.
Winning at home for the first time.
So, 2008 was a very special and good season.
We didnâ€™t get a great start to the season,
not the first couple of races, especially me.
Itâ€™s the best possible start to the season for Lewis Hamilton!
But then after two races, everything just changed.
Hamilton is up in the air!
BAHRAIN GP April 6, 2008
A terrific drive by Felipe Massa.
TURKISH GP May 11, 2008
No one today could match Felipe Massa.
Felipe Massa wins the French Grand Prix.
Heâ€™s a genuine title contender.
Hamilton holds the inside line and squeezes Massa,
but Massa has made it through!
What a bold move there by Felipe Massa!
And he has taken control of this race!
With only three laps to go, absolute disaster for Felipe Massa
who had done everything right!
Oh no! Heâ€™s taken the hose with him!
It could well cost him the world championship!
He got a green light. Massa did nothing wrong there.
Lewis Hamilton wins the Chinese Grand Prix.
Heâ€™s not going to take the World Championship home today,
but heâ€™s going to a take a big step closer to it.
Heâ€™s got a seven-point margin going into the final round.
Felipe Massaâ€™s face says it all.
And then we arrived at this last race of the season,
which was Interlagos.
I was actually behind on the Championship.
So, if I won the race,
which was the only thing I had to do,
Lewis couldnâ€™t finish fifth,
so he had to finish sixth
and then we are the Champions.
I really felt the car in my hands.
You know, the way you drive the car, the way you feel the car,
the way the team was working.
So everything was really perfect.
Lewis was around fourth position, something like that.
So, everything was going his way
to win the Championship.
And then suddenly it started raining really heavily.
Oh my goodness me! Vettel has taken a place
and that could cost Hamilton the World Championship.
-Oh, itâ€™s raining though. -Itâ€™s now raining hard...
...and the championship is slipping away from Lewis Hamilton.
And then we came to the last lap.
Everybodyâ€™s expectation was really high for me to win the race
but also the Championship.
When I crossed the chequered flag, I was the champion, you know?
And, so everybody was going really crazy around my place,
my town, my country!
Can Hamilton do anything?
Can he run it up the inside of Vettel?
Only a few corners to go now
and desperation starts to creep in for Lewis Hamilton.
Is that Glock going slowly?
-It is! Itâ€™s Glock! -Thatâ€™s Glock!
Oh, my goodness me! Hamiltonâ€™s back in position again.
A hundred thousand local hearts sink in the grandstands.
Itâ€™s handed 5th place back to Hamilton!
He comes through.
You are absolutely right, Iâ€™m sure,
that he is going to claim fifth place
which is all he needs to do to become...
Yes!
...the 2008 Formula 1 World Champion: Lewis Hamilton.
It was tough, you know.
I think especially for everybody
that was watching the race.
It has never happened, at least in Formula 1,
to decide the Championship like this.
It was close. It couldnâ€™t have been closer.
In this moment, you know?
But I think the best thing was looking to the fans,
looking to the people.
It was like, I won the race, thanks to all of you.
This really helped me to get up on the podium
and kind of celebrate what happened.
A very dignified, very, very dignified performance
by an utterly devastated Felipe Massa.
I started my season in 1982 with a win in Portugal.
So, it was a confirmation of San Remo,
so it was really great.
Everybody was very happy. Then, we went to Greece.
And I won in Greece, also. And at that time, you know,
the position of women in those countries was really difficult.
And I really remember, you know,
all the old ladies on the side of the road with flowers.
It was really a very special moment
to see that people realized that it was a team
of two women winning. It was special.
The next round of the Championship
could see you overtaking Walter or perhaps drawing even.
Could we possibly see a lady World Champion this year?
I donâ€™t want to think about the World Championship, you know.
I want to think about each event, and we will see at the finish.
And the fight was with Walter RÃ¶hrl at that time.
And we were at the penultimate event, in the Ivory Coast
If I won in the Ivory Coast I only had to finish the rally,
here in England, to be World Champion.
So, we started and everything went well
because it was very muddy.
Very difficult conditions.
I started to lead by a lot and by the middle of the rally
I was more than 1 hour and 20 minutes ahead of Walter.
And suddenly I started to feel the gear shift
become a little bit harder.
30 seconds. Quickly.
Weâ€™re done, boss.
-Yes, yes! Come on! -Yes.
We lost 5 minutes because of you, yesterday.
I spoke with Hannu, and I said, â€œWhat we do?â€
He said, â€œI mean, we have 1 hour 20 minutes.
No, no, donâ€™t think about it.
We change the gearbox and thatâ€™s all.â€
So, we decided what parts of the gearbox we'd fix.
Normally, it was around 20 minutes to change it, at that time.
The mechanics start to work. 20, 30, 40 minutes...
At 40 minutes they said, â€œOkay, jump in the car.â€
So, we jumped in the car.
I put the car into gear, and then, no clutch, no gear.
Everything had seized up.
And I have two Germans in front of me saying,
â€œIt should work.â€
I said â€œNo!â€
And nothing worked. So, they started all over again.
So, I lost all of my time.
And then we had foggy conditions
and you know, in Portugal, in the fog
I made up two minutes on Walter,
in an eight kilometer stage.
Because itâ€™s so important with your co-driver
to have good notes.
You donâ€™t see anything, but you hear, you know,
â€œHundred meters,â€
I learned that you never make up time.
I got confused with the notes
and I rolled the car and we stopped there.
But the story was a little bit worse
because we started the race
at 9 or 10 oâ€™clock in the morning.
But at 7 a.m. I got a phone call from my family
saying that my father had passed away.
It was hard to cope with that.
Just thinking about it reminds me of how hard it was.
So, I spoke to Fabrizia, I said,
â€œOkay, this is what happened. We will do the race.
I will not say anything to anybody." And we get back in the car.
-And so, we were... - Oh my God.
And we lost the Championship.
But I always said I didnâ€™t even think about the Championship
because the difference between losing my father and...
So I didnâ€™t even think about that.
I just left and went back home.
â€˜98 was definitely a great year for me.
When we went to the very first test with that â€˜98 car,
it was like a rocket.
Great start from HÃ¤kkinen !
Heâ€™s through,
heâ€™s passed Schumacher and Coulthard.
I mean, we were so fast!
Of course, racing against Michael Schumacher...
Schumacherâ€™s going for the lead at the Roggia.
And heâ€™s right up alongside. And heâ€™s going through!
Fantastic!
HÃ¤kkinen fights back! This is magnificent!
The lead changes twice in about 400 yards!
I felt great because Michael had great success already
and it was nice to kick his ass!
So, the season went on and on.
Sometimes I had a little bad luck, sometimes I made a mistake...
Heâ€™s out! Heâ€™s out!
Then vice versa for Michael.
Schumacher leading Damon Hill there by 27 seconds now,
in a class of his own.
Oh God! Michael Schumacher hits David Coulthard
and is out of the Belgian Grand Prix!
But towards the end of the season,
we were nearly on the equal points going into the last Grand Prix.
So, I needed to win.
And itâ€™s go, go, go!
Yellow flag. A driverâ€™s stalled on the line.
That is Michael Schumacher.
Will he end up on the back of the grid?
Heâ€™s shaking his head, look.
Michael Schumacher, under the terms of the regulations,
has to start this race from the back of the grid.
Well, if that is the case,
Michael Schumacher has almost certainly lost
the World Championship before this race even begins.
So, I went â€œYay!â€
No. I didnâ€™t do this but I was like,
"Stay calm. Itâ€™s not over yet. Itâ€™s not over yet."
You did inside.
Yes! Absolutely.
So, I got the lead and I knew I was going to pull away.
I just need to stay consistent and not make mistakes.
Michael is pushing incredibly hard.
Heâ€™s still got a sniff of it.
21 seconds behind the race leader Mika HÃ¤kkinen .
So, there is still a small chance of victory
and a World Championship here.
Michael Schumacher on the ragged edge.
It was never a situation that you could relaxâ€¦
Until I saw it on a big screen.
Michael Schumacher retires from the Japanese Grand Prix.
Mika HÃ¤kkinen is the World Champion.
Mika HÃ¤kkinen is World Champion of 1998.
And I was, again, â€œYeah!â€
And it was great to finish the Grand Prix
and to be a World Champion after all these years.
And then Michael came to congratulate me.
It was really, really cool of him.
Mika HÃ¤kkinen , from Finland, the World Champion.
And the â€˜99 season, again.
Michael and me and Ferrari and fighting...
-Fighting against... -So, you fight a lot together?
Yeah, again, challenging to win Grand Prix.
And then Michael had his accident in Silverstone.
It looked really nasty and he did break his--
-Hurt his... - Hurt his leg.
So, he was out of the game
and I didnâ€™t celebrate that time, of course,
because he hurt himself.
Michael is basically alright
and they've flown him to the hospital just to check his leg.
So, I was thinking,
â€œOkay, maybe this season is going to be a bit easierâ€
But then, the pressure was just incredible.
To handle that pressure,
finding and controlling your emotions.
Oh, and thatâ€™s HÃ¤kkinen spinning!
Out goes HÃ¤kkinen! HÃ¤kkinen the race leader!
Mentally really tough.
So, all the preparation for the last Grand Prix was...
Everything had to be perfect.
Your personal thoughts working with you.
The team had to be perfect. It was a great feeling.
A great two years. Beautiful, beautiful years.
I think 2000 was a great season again.
Yeah!
What stands out, I think, for us, was the Kemmel Straight at Spa
when you had that hard fight between Michael and you.
I tried to overtake Michael, I think, three or four times,
and every time he pushed me on the grass.
And I knew that next lap,
if I tried to overtake Michael again, he would push, you know,
he would block me.
The only place I was able to overtake was after Eau Rouge.
I could see a back-marker, Ricardo Zonta,
driving in middle of the track.
It was logical for Michael to overtake him on the left,
because the next corner was to the right.
So I decide to go across to the other side.
A brilliant move there, either side of Zonta.
And HÃ¤kkinen brilliantly takes the lead of the Belgian Grand Prix.
It was quite a risk when we overtook him.
ERJA HÃ„KKINEN Mika's Wife
It's guaranteed he needed to change
his underpants after the race!
HÃ¤kkinen is now six points ahead of Michael Schumacher
in the World Championship. Mika HÃ¤kkinen has the advantage.
Well, it was incredible.
It wasâ€¦ incredible.
I knew, following Michael,
there was no point in trying to overtake him on the straight
because, obviously, heâ€™s not going to give me room. Correct?
Yes, I made it difficult.
I had a word with him after the race. I said,
â€œCome on man, you are risking not only your life, but also my life.â€
And he just looked at me, â€œThis is racing.â€
And I said, â€œYes, but...â€
-Where is the limit? -Yeah.
That was his style of driving.
I have to win it.
How are you feeling about that?
Terrible.
Michael Schumacher is definitely very nervous.
He needs to deliver this championship
for himself and for Ferrari.
Itâ€™s go! And Michael Schumacher cuts straight across
and drives Mika HÃ¤kkinen towards the wall.
But HÃ¤kkinen's done it again!
Heâ€™s taken the lead as he did last year and the year before.
Itâ€™s now going to come down to strategy and pit stops.
These next two laps could well decide the Japanese Grand Prix,
and the World Championship.
Here comes Michael Schumacher, rejoining the track,
and heâ€™s ahead of Mika HÃ¤kkinen.
Michael Schumacher to win the 2000 Japanese Grand Prix
and the World Championship
to give Ferrari and Italy their dream.
Michael, give us your feelings.
I donâ€™t have words. Shit! You are great, Ross.
Youâ€™re great Ross. Shit! We did it! We did it!
Give Corinna a big kiss from me.
The first World Championship for Ferrari for 21 years.
You are one of the architects of it.
Tell us what it means to you and to this team.
Personally, itâ€™s why I came to Ferrari. To do this.
So, Iâ€™ve achieved my dream.
And so has everyone else in the team.
Michael is a great driver
but on top of that, heâ€™s a great man.
We have been together when things were very bad
and we are together when things are very good.
But I mean I love Michael.
I loved him when he had the accident at Silverstone,
and I love him today after he gave
the driving championship to Ferrari.
Itâ€™s like father and son, yes?
Am I so old? Two brothers.
-Michael Schumacher! -Yes!!!
Mika, youâ€™ve been a superb World Champion for the last two years
but your reign, for now, is over. How do you feel?
So sad.
A bit disappointed but at the same time I feel...
I have won two years in a row, in â€˜98 and â€™99,
you know, I understand it is sometimes
some other driver's turn to win.
Life continues and racing continues. You have to keep fighting.
-Hello. -Hello.
-Good evening.
DOMINATION
INGOLSTADT Germany, 2000
I got invited out to see Dr. Ullrich at Audi in Ingolstadt.
I have to say, a very humble building where they started from...
My time.
With your time, with the rally program,
they were still in the same place. I really felt a good chemistry.
Ullrich showed me the drawings of the R8
which they were going to enter for the 2000 Le Mans.
Some people were questioning my going to Audi
but I gave him a handshake
and thatâ€™s the best decision Iâ€™ve ever made.
Tom Kristensen, equals the record of the Belgian Jacky Ickx!
Tom Kristensen is the greatest ever driver of Le Mans!
Lap times are good.
Tom Kristensen is Mr. Le Mans!
Sure, there is the pressure.
But there is also the privilege of the dream,
of how we started with a passion of doing well.
The Aston Martin at the chicane. Itâ€™s Allan Simonsen at the wheel.
Allan Simonsen has died as a result of that crash.
I went into this race,
I wanted really to race for my dad,
because he passed away this year.
But if I just imagine myself sitting down
and having a little Danish beer with Allan and my dad
then we would both agree
that I should try to win this race with Audi for Allan.
This is what we did, so...
You donâ€™t call that a happy ending.
Ferrari are Constructors' World Champions
Michael Schumacher is World Champion!
It is a great achievement for the team.
And it shows the great domination of Ferrari.
Michael Schumacher. He is five-time World Champion.
Iâ€™m just so glad that we have achieved this together,
with people behind you that you can just love
and you can admire, with all the effort they put in.
There are some rumors that maybe this dream team
is going to split up in some way
because Luca de Montezemolo maybe is--
Donâ€™t believe in rumors.
We are here together. Happy together.
And we will stay together for many years.
Michael Schumacher, the first six-time World Formula 1 Champion.
That grey and black speck in the distance is Kimi RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen.
A magnificent win for Kimi RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen! Well done to him.
But Michael Schumacher
gets his seventh Formula 1 World Championship.
Isnâ€™t this a race loverâ€™s heaven?
The three best drivers in the world
going toe-to-toe around one of its finest race tracks.
Schumacher. Alonso. RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen.
Fernando Alonso trying to pass Michael Schumacher.
180 mph around the outside of the 130R corner!
Iâ€™ve never seen anything like it!
Look how calm it is behind the wheel.
RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen getting past Michael Schumacher.
One of the best days of my life, 1975, September,
when we won the championship, with Nikki Lauda, here in Monza.
It is, of course, an important weekend
because we will announce the next seasonâ€™s team.
Michael is an important part of my life.
We have faced fantastic moments and difficult moments.
But he has always been very loyal.
You must be excited to join Ferrari?
I donâ€™t know what you are talking about.
Are we going to learn your future this weekend?
We just need to wait and see.
Michael Schumacher wins the Italian Grand Prix!
The official press release, there it is.
Look at the top line.
â€œMichael Schumacher will retire from race driving
at the end of the 2006 World Championship.â€
So, itâ€™s the news that every Ferrari fan,
and every Michael Schumacher fan,
did not want to hear.
Itâ€™s got a load of PR nice stuff
about how he loves Ferrari...
Look, even his engineer Chris Dyer hasnâ€™t seen this.
At the end of this year, Iâ€™ve decided,
together with the team,
that Iâ€™m going to retire from racing.
It has been an exceptional. a really exceptional time,
what motorsport has given to me, for more than 30 years.
Particularly, I should thank my family
starting with, obviously, my dad,
my mum, who has passed away.
And now, I just want to concentrate
on the last three events and finish in style.
For him, it is the right time. He is on the top,
and I am sure he will have a very nice life.
Michael will remain a member of the Ferrari family,
this for sure.
Tonight, we have with us,
our chief test driver, Michael Schumacher.
And since, unfortunately, he decided to retire,
he has been in charge of the development
of the 458 Italia. Michael...
Thank you. Thank you for the introduction.
I wish everybody who has the opportunity to test it,
great fun and enjoy. Thank you.
Something happened that nobody would believe.
Yes, really unbelievable.
I was in Budapest in 2009 and I did my qualifying lap...
FRAGILE
Exit of corner five,
Rubens lost his spring, the third spring of his car,
and I was coming around 250 km/h,
And the spring just hit my head.
The spring. How much did it weigh?
One kilo.
And youâ€™re arriving 250?
Arriving 250.
I went to the hospital.
And they performed quite an intense operation.
With all the faith in our religion, may you pray for him.
So, then they remove all the bones, and then close it up,
and I was in a coma for three days.
I flew back to Brazil.
and they did another big operation,
a month after, to put in a plateâ€¦
-Okay. -Here, you know?
Because I lost all the bone in this area.
It took really a long time to get back to the car.
You always know you want to go back to racing.
-But you never believe something... -Will happen to you.
...will happen to you.
When it happens to you, you respect life.
Not only yours but everybodyâ€™s, in a big way.
The hardest hit I had was in DTM 2007.
I donâ€™t remember, in a way, for days,
but apparently, the car took an impact of 63 Gs.
The recovery was not in a coma.
But I knew how close it was.
Our team doctor, Dr. Young,
we always called him Dr. Death, but...
-when we needed him... -He was there.
...he was always there.
He came to visit me in Denmark and said,
â€œYou have to see a neurologist.
And if he gives you the thumbs up,
you can start working again.
Before he does it, itâ€™s tough.
Basically, I made my decision to come back at Le Mans.
He couldnâ€™t believe that I wanted to race again.
When I felt good enough, I said,
â€œCan I have a go in a car again?â€
And actually, this healed my process,
because when I drove,
I knew instinctively that this is where I belong.
But I think the message was,
I donâ€™t want to stop like that.
I donâ€™t want to have somebody...
-something-- -to determine... And that was--
You wanted to decide.
It was a nice way to come back.
You donâ€™t stop, you donâ€™t decide your career by an accident.
I feel very sorry for the people in racing who,
due to injuries, are not able to come back.
I had my accident in â€™95. It was quite a challenge.
Because what happened, happened in Australia, in Adelaide.
I was going flat out on a long straight.
Just when I was entering the corner, the rear tire didnâ€™t explode,
it just lost pressure very quickly.
And so, the car started bottoming.
And I lost the control, of course.
There was a massive curb in the exit
and of course I hit that curb
and the car bounced a couple of times on the ground
and hit the barrier sideways.
At that time, we didnâ€™t have the HANS protection,
or theâ€¦ I donâ€™t know exactly...
-The headrest. -Headrest system.
So, you know, my head moved pretty aggressively.
So, it was a really difficult time.
But I was very fortunate because,
in the corner where the accident happened,
all the medical crew was there.
The hospital was just 5 minutes away.
So everything happened very quickly. I got help very fast.
And the level of care that heâ€™s received
has been absolutely exceptional.
They performed a tracheotomy at the side of the car.
There is still some possibility of the brain swelling.
He was truly, and still is, in a critical condition.
So yeah, I was in a coma a few days
and then the really horrible things started, you know?
Because when you wake up, you start realizing 'Oh my God!â€™
Because I banged so hard,
I lost control of one side of my face.
The nerves got damaged.
So, when you were sleeping,
they had to put tape on your eyes,
to keep them closed.
Then the time came when they started to test
whether you can smell normally,
you can taste normally, you can walk.
How long you did you stay in Australia?
I think I was over there for five weeks.
Five weeks.
And my girlfriend flew to Australia to support me.
Automatically, you really put thoughts away about motor racing.
You start thinking, "I can move my hands..."
And you know, those priorities come into your life.
Later on, the accident helped me in my racing career.
â€œSlow down a bit. You donâ€™t have to run all the time.
Walk. Think. Take your time.
Look around you at whatâ€™s happening.â€
Then in 2001, I had quite a few accidents.
You start thinking a little bit differently.
I was very fortunate,
winning the World Championships of â€˜98 and â€˜99.
So, I felt that I had achieved my goals,
why I came to Formula 1.
So, then I decided thatâ€™s it!
Itâ€™s better to do something else.
And I feel that was
-a good decision. -The right decision?
-The right time? -Yeah, yeah.
It was 2014.
I had the chance to win my 10th LeMans.
We were in the lead at midday
with less than four hours to the end.
Accelerating out of Dunlop corner... the next gear...
And I felt a little bit of a loss of power.
The leader has stopped out on the circuit.
Itâ€™s a hard mistress, this race.
And then we come in the pit and it was a blown turbo.
Obviously bloody hot.
They were able to change it
but it took a little bit more than 15 minutes, maybe nearly 20.
And we dropped down to third position.
We were still pushing until the end.
Audi doing their fastest laps of the race.
A Herculean effort by the Number 1 car.
It was very tough.
And actually, we won second place.
Standing there, going to the podium with a sweaty hand,
in my mind, on the trophy,
but not being able to grab it, I was disappointed.
And I remember meeting Dr. Ullrich and saying,
â€œThis is not, this is... I canâ€™t wait for next year.â€
But I mean, you canâ€™t stop your age, you canâ€™t stop things.
And a lot of young people are obviously coming along
who are very good and very fast.
I told Hanne about my decision to stop,
after she came home from the shopping center
and she dropped the bags and said,
â€œYouâ€™re going to be happy. Thatâ€™s a very strong decision.â€
Family life is the most important thing.
And I have not missed any racing at all, ever since.
Maybe Iâ€™m lying a bit there.
For me, after five years of the championship,
I was starting to get a little bit tired.
300 days a year you are on the road,
so I wanted to slow down a little bit, I didn't know how.
Jean Todt was Peugeot team manager and offered me two events
in the World Championship, with the Peugeot 205.
So I accepted.
The men drivers are all saying
itâ€™s a very hard rally, long stages.
Do you think youâ€™re strong enough to cope with this?
Of course, itâ€™s my 12th Tour de Corse.
I think a woman is more able to make a constant effort
than to go very fast and down after.
So, I am not afraid of that
After the first day, I knew I was at my best.
I was third overall.
There is MichÃ¨le Mouton, going superbly well.
I had a problem with the gearshift and I stopped.
But for me it was my best rally.
But I had the problem with the gearshift, again.
After that I knew that I would miss out on a family life.
I was 35 and for me it was clear.
I said to Fredrik, who was my partner at that time, I said,
â€œOkay, itâ€™s the end for me.â€
And I stopped there, and I never regretted that,
because I had my daughter Jessie the following year.
And so it was great, a great time.
At the end of 2016, I had a race in Brazil,
Interlagos, it was the last race of the season.
It was raining so much during the race, red flagsâ€¦
I crashed.
I was so disappointed that I crashed in my last race in Brazil.
I started to walk back to the pits
and the whole grandstand stood up and started to wave to me.
When I got to the pits,
I saw that everybody from all the teams,
even teams that I hadnâ€™t raced for,
were outside their garages and clapping their hands.
My son, Felipino, was waiting for me,
my wife, and my parents.
It was an amazing feeling.
When you see these things happen,
I think it shows that you have a lot of respect.
But I was ready to stop.
Our sport, itâ€™s difficult, itâ€™s hard. But itâ€™s also human.
Iâ€™m glad to introduce Michael Schumacher.
Ross is the leader of this one,
and Iâ€™m more than proud to be a part of you.
And I look forward to a great future with all of you.
Which car do you see as being the fastest?
Good question, weâ€™re here to find out.
Am I as good as I was at 25?
Who knows? Weâ€™ll find out. Iâ€™ll tell you later.
I lost my front wing again.
That seems to be my weak spot at the moment.
I think we should make them much stronger, those things.
Naturally, Iâ€™m excited and very happy for this particular weekend.
I didnâ€™t have a clue where I was. Third position.
I thought, no, not possible!
I tried to end this mission successfully.
It didnâ€™t work, this time,
But Iâ€™m quite happy to finish from here
and go for a different life, again.
My friends. It has been a pleasure to be with you today.
Iâ€™m sorry that I cannot stay,
but sometimes emotions can be too strong.
Reliving my life with you has been a privilege.
But it has brought back many ghosts.
The next chapter of our story is too hard for me to tell.
See you on the road. Felipe.
Michael Schumacher is said to be fighting for his life
after a skiing accident in the French Alps.
The former racing driver is in a coma
after undergoing brain surgery.
Michaelâ€™s injury is heavy, and the overall situation is critical.
When I got the news, the irony was,
I was actually with my family in Norway.
We were skiing.
I couldnâ€™t believe it, you know.
First of all, you think, okay, it will go,
because Michael has been through so many battles
that you cannot even think he will lose this one.
So, you donâ€™t want to think about the worst.
SHUMI All our thoughts and prayers for you and your family
I was shocked. And from my personal experience,
having a head injury, it is always serious.
With each passing hour, concern for his recovery grows.
Gerard Saillant, Franceâ€™s top trauma specialist,
has now flown down from Paris
in another sign that this is being taken very seriously indeed.
The doctors donâ€™t want to make any further statements,
because they cannot.
They are working hour-by-hour.
And everything we heard about after that,
I really think that, you know,
he deserved to have his private life, his normal life.
He was such a fantastic person. Very cool. Very open.
Smiling, laughing all the time.
The best times, I think, I had with Michael...
There was a rivalry, like with everyone,
when we were on the race track.
Actually in Norway, in Trysil, when he was there,
sometimes I joined him and we played football...
Just like kids. That was the best time
I had with him.
Formula 1 is a lifestyle. It isa life.
And Michael had just decided
to start enjoying his life with his family more.
So, I thought, why now?
What is the purpose of this kind of situation?
Everyone who comes from the background of a humble family,
we all deserve a proper retirement.
So, thatâ€™s the irony of the story.
We have lived flat out.
We have taken, you cannot believe, the chances weâ€™ve taken.
Trying to make our teams proud
and at the end of the day, our families proud.
And the plan is to spend a proper retirement.
But you know, skiing accident in your free time,
thatâ€™s hard to swallow.
We have been hoping and hoping and hoping
and itâ€™s true that now time is passing
and we still hope, of course.
Bottom of my heart I really... hope.
Stop.
My daughter met a fantastic guy
and they decided to get married.
But one week before the wedding,
my mother fell and hit her head very badly.
She was 90 years old.
So of course, it was panic. We saw the doctors.
The doctors came into the room with my sister
and showed us the x-rays and said,
â€œUnfortunately, no chance. She will not pass the night.â€
I said, â€œOkay.â€
In the middle of the night, she woke up. She recognized me.
I talked to her. I couldnâ€™t believe it.
The next morning, she started to speak,
to laugh with the doctors and to be okay.
The doctors couldnâ€™t believe it.
So, for us, you know, it was fantastic.
So, we continued the wedding.
And then she asked me,
â€œHave you booked the hairdresser for me?"
And she had her dress ready, everything ready.
-Wow. -And so,
we told her that, you know,
that she would come to the wedding,
and maybe, you know,
we made her hope that she could come.
And she hoped so much.
During the wedding,
her best friend came to her, and stayed with her,
but she told her that the wedding was going on
and she would see everything in the wedding video.
The next day, when we went to see her,
she had her eyes closed
and she let go and she passed away.
She waited all the wedding,
To make us happy. And it was just unbelievable.
We couldnâ€™t believe that.