Zidane and Schumacher speeds around a F1 track for charity. A noble effort, one might add.
Michael Schumacher and Zinedine Zidane, both eschewing to wear a crash helmet, sped around the Magny-Cours circuit in a high-speed Ferrari Enzo FXX sports car on Saturday morning to help raise funds for two charities.
The charities, ironically, were the Paris-based Institute for Cerebral and Medullar Disorders (ICM) and the European Association Against Leucodystrophies (ELA), both concerned with brain and spinal injuries.
Given the dangers of any accident in a high-speed car at a racing circuit, it was extraordinary that the two great world champions of motor racing and football chose not to wear helmets during two fast laps in a black Ferrari.
“He refused to wear one because he wanted to have a full sensation of the car and the experience with me,” said Schumacher, who drove the car.
“And I think I have a pretty good idea of how to do this kind of thing.”
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