{"id":108,"date":"2007-07-01T01:47:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-07-11T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T14:58:09","slug":"108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/108\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher chauffeurs Zidane for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/shumi-zidane1.jpg\" title=\"Michael Schumacher chauffeurs Zidane for charity\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/shumi-zidane1.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"Michael Schumacher chauffeurs Zidane for charity\" title=\"Michael Schumacher chauffeurs Zidane for charity\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(L to R): Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari with Zinedine Zidane (FRA) Retired Football Player and a Ferrari FXX. Formula One World Championship, Rd 8, French Grand Prix, Qualifying Day, Magny-Cours, France, Saturday 30 June 2007.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Two retired sport icons &#8211; seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and soccer legend Zinedine Zidane &#8211; in one car. That alone would make headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the fact that the vehicle &#8211; a Ferrari FXX &#8211; was Schumacher\u2019s personal car (one of only 30 built), that it was Zidane\u2019s track baptism and that the route was a fast lap of Magny-Cours &#8211; and you are guaranteed a media frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what happened at the French Grand Prix meeting on Saturday and there was a good cause behind the special track display: both Schumacher and Zidane were there to support the Institute for Cerebral and Medullar Disorders (ICM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hotly-contested 2007 F1 world championship is very interesting for lovers of motorsport like myself,\u201d said Zidane. \u201cBut I am here above all to support the ICM, the association whose aim is provide the necessary means to combat certain serious neurological diseases\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting out of the car, the Frenchman added: \u201cGee, that was quite an experience &#8211; and incredible, how late Michael was braking before beating the car around the curves! I would not want to try that on a normal road!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Schumacher, quite monosyllabic of late when confronted with the media, added: \u201cSport has given the both of us an immense amount &#8211; and this was a great occasion to give something back by raising the awareness for the research of the Institute for Cerebral and Medullar Disorders. And it was a personal pleasure!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(L to R): Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari with Zinedine Zidane (FRA) Retired Football Player and a Ferrari FXX. Formula One World Championship, Rd 8, French Grand Prix, Qualifying Day, Magny-Cours, France, Saturday 30 June 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formula-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}