Within the 90s F1 parties – from driver ‘almost die’ to Schuy Tearing Shirt
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It is a sport where fatal risks, extreme pressure and bitter rivalry are the norm.
But outside the track Formula 1 Is the paradise of a Playboy, decorated with yachts, super models and the millionary High Life.
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So it is no wonder that many drivers are known to party at top speed.
And the sun can lift the lid exclusively during the Helraising sessions that took place in the 90s, a wild era for sport.
Ex-Red Bull boss Richard Hopkins Remembered a while Mercedes Legend Mika Hakkinen drank a whole bottle of vodka after a race in the late 90s, making him ‘almost dead’.
Hopkins, head of the operations in Red Bull from 2013 to 2015, told The Sun: “Hakkinen drank a bottle of vodka in one Sunday evening.
“I was just like Jesus Christ, I never knew. I thought he might have a small sip or a shot or something, but to get a bottle of vodka?
“He would not pop up the next day, which was a Monday, so that was fine, but he had some media things the next day and you would find out that he was extraordinary hangover.
“It was in Germany, I think during the season ’98 or ’99, probably Hockenheimring, it was during his Mercedes days and they had a function afterwards.
“It was with his wife. His wife would bring him a bit a bit astray at the time, but Mika didn’t need much to bring him astray.
“He was another who never enjoyed the media and always happened to be very withdrawn, but he was certainly not.
“You brought him outside the racing circuit, even on the racing circuit, and what you saw on TV and in an interview was someone who said very few words.
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“But he was a great practical joker, a great comedian. Have fun. And is still great fun.”
He added: “Mika was almost dead! But in honesty there was proof that he can handle that. He is Finnish and they love their vodka, so I think he had a decent endurance.
“But he wasn’t really at the end, said it that way. None of us would be.”
Hopkins would enjoy regular coffee Ferrari Great Michael Schumacher from 1993, when he was a mechanic at McLaren and the German Reed for Benetton.
Seven -time title winner Schumacher developed a frightening reputation on the circuit as a ruthless operator who would stop nothing to win races.
But friends say that the German cut another figure after a race – and “there are some stories that you couldn’t print”.
Hopkins, from the UK, says that the German was easily influenced by teammate and party animal, Eddie Irvine.
The Noord -Ier would lead after a racing parties, especially if his Ferrari side had been as a victor.
Hopkins added: “I don’t know if he and Eddie were good friends. They just party together.
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“But Eddie can bring someone astray, damn hell.
“If Eddie saw a chance, where if someone has won a race or a championship, he would be in it and would really like to buy the champagne and the vodka.”
Schumacher was known to drivers for a famous party trick, where he would jump them and drop off his shirt.
Hopkins was asked about this: ‘That would not surprise me. I think they all had to drop their hair at some point.
“Even Ayrton Senna and many of these guys, they let their hair down very well. There are some stories that you couldn’t print.
“I have heard Schumacher who partyed on the roof of Bernie Ecclestone. Many drivers are like rolled up sources, right? They spend the season sue and be tense with everything.
“Schumacher, although he was quite robot -like and Germanic, gave himself the time to relax. And Schumacher was certainly relaxed.
“I can’t tell you that I have seen details.
“There were a few years where I remember that Schumacher and Irvine together had quite a good time. But I can’t say anymore …”
Christian Danner, the first Formula 1 driver disqualified for dangerous driving, also has memories of Schumacher who let go.
Danner, now a commentator on German TV, says that Schumacher would love a cigar and a Bacardi and Cola.
What happened to Michael Schumacher?
Michael Schumacher’s life hung on a thread 12 years ago when Medici desperately tried to keep him alive after a tragic ski crash that left him with horrible brain injury.
The F1 legend received the best possible treatment when he was placed in a medically induced coma, had lowered his body temperature and underwent hours of difficult operations on his brain.
In 2013, the retired seven -time world champion, and then are then 14-year-old son left at the Combe de Saulire Ski Run in the exclusive French Meribel resort.
Images of his helmet camera revealed that he was Not traveling at excessive speed When his skis a rock became hidden under the snow.
He catapulted forward 11.5 ft and first collapsed into a boulder head that split his helmet in two and left him to be flown to the hospital for Two life -saving operations.
At one point his family was told to brace himself to be braced for the worst scenario, because the situation was much worse than originally believed.
At that time, doctors said Schumacher Probably at least 48 hours in an induced coma when his body and mind recovered.
But the coma lasted 250 days – more than eight months.
After waking up in June 2014, he was fired from the hospital and sent to his house in Lake Geneva to get further treatment.
Since then, his wife Corinna and his inner circle of friends have skilfully avoided to leak almost everything about his health Status.
Only small amounts of information have been released, including reports that Schumacher was in a wheelchair, but can respond to things around him.
In 2019 it was said Schumacher would undergo breakthrough tribe cell therapy In an attempt to regenerate and rebuild his nervous system.
Renowned France Cardiologist Dr. Philippe Menasche, who had operated on him before, would perform the treatment that cells would see from his heart go to his brain.
Next treatment In the Georges Pompidou Hospital in ParisIt was said that he was “conscious”, although few other details were given about his state.
Bernie Ecclestone’s camper was a famous hotspot for drivers to come together for a party, he added.
The ex-Arrows star said to The Sun: “Michael’s way of partying was that he usually went to the private camper of Bernie Ecclestone, had his friends there and drank a lot of Bacardi and Coca-Cola, and that was it.
“It was not, as far as I am concerned, partying, but the content of these types of parties for him consisted of Bacardi and Coca-Cola, and that was all.
“He was back on his feet on Monday and definitely kept pushing, but everyone did that.
“All good drivers, all champions did that.”
Danner added: “The house of Ecclestone was a neutral territory. The paddock was very different at the time.
“For example, there were many animosities between the teams, Williams and Ferrari, there were many bad vibes.
“But the camper from Ecclestone was a place to meet casually. Not in the camper of Ecclestone, he had his bus and that was for politics and business.
“It was a place for a chat,” did you see this “or whatever. It was a kind of trading location for gossip and for a nice coffee and a bacardi and cola, for Schumacher.”
He added: “Schumacher loved a cigar, yes.
“But personally when someone smokes a cigar, I leave the room.”
Schumacher suffered serious brain injury in a devastating ski accident in 2013.
He has not been seen since and his family has no longer announced his condition.
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