Snapshot: Bernie Ecclestone and Michael Schumacher are sitting on a wall

FLASHBACK in a snapshot: It’s 12/08/2000. Formula One Motor Racing has arrived at the Hungarian Grand Prix. At the Qualifying session, Michael Schumacher tries to tip Bernie Ecclestone off the wall as David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen and Rubens Barrichello look on. Bernie then appears to grap Schumacher’s gear stick…

Earlier, on 26/09/1997, the Formula One Constructors Association President Bernie Ecclestone, left, and German driver Michael Schumacher smashed cakes into each other’s faces following a ceremony to honour Schumacher for his 100th Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring track, western Germany.

It’s a bromance:

 

 

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