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Schumacher Junior to test F1?
MAY 27, 1996
RALF SCHUMACHER,
Michael Schumacher's younger brother, is expected to test a
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car
before the end of this season. The 21-year- old was being touted around
the F1 paddock at Monaco by his manager Willy Weber - who also looks
after Michael Schumacher.
Ralf is currently racing in
Formula Nippon - the Japanese version of Formula
3000 - and has been competing since he started kart
racing in 1988. At 18 he moved into
cars, racing in the Formula Junior series in Germany.
He won his first race at the Nurburgring
in July of that year, and at the end
of the season was given a Formula 3 test by Weber's
WTS Racing, with which his brother had won the German
F3 title in 1990.
In 1994 Ralf joined the team-with
backing from Michael's personal sponsor Dekra - and finished third in the
series, winning one race. He stayed with the team
in 1995 and won four races but was
overshadowed by Sauber test driver Norberto
Fontana who won 10 victories. Ralf did, however,
win the prestigious Macau F3 Grand Prix at the
end of the year.
Word on the
street in F1 is that Ralf could be seen testing a Benetton at the
end of the year.
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