Este no se cansa de ganar!
Schumacher wins bike race in Hungary
By Peter Farkas
Friday, March 21st 2008, 07:27 GMT
After testing a Ducati MotoGP bike last year in Valencia, seven times world champion Michael Schumacher again proved he was almost as fast on two wheels as he was on four, when he finished third and then first a seris of bike races, held at the Hungarian track of Pannonia-Ring on Thursday.
Although the majority of the 27 bikers who entered the 10-lap race were enthusiastic amateurs, 39-year old Schumacher has faced some tough competition, as his teammate at the Holzhauer Racing Promotion team was none other than 2007 IDM (Internationale Deutsche Motorradmeisterschaft) Superbike Champion Martin Bauer. An other IDM rider, Andy Meklau, was also on the grid.
Schumacher, appaerantly competing just for fun, and wearing his orange overalls and black helmet familiar from the Ducati tests, arrived at the Pannonia-Ring, a 4,740 metres long track near the Hungarian village of Ostffyasszonyfa, late afternoon on Wednesday.
He then completed only a handful of laps, but went on to claim pole position for the race on Thursday, although it has to be noted that the bikes of the professional IDM riders didn't have timing transponders in them during the event, and they were relegated to the back of the grid anyway.
Instead of starting from pole, Schumacher - riding an 1000 ccm H