Johnny Cecotto/Schumacher DTM

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Johnny Cecotto/Schumacher DTM

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I was reading up earlier and saw a clip of Schumacher apparently cutting a corner and going through the grass to take out Cecotto in Hockenheim.

Any idea what’s the background here? Anything I can read more about? At face value it looks like an awful move - the kind that could land you a lifetime ban.



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Picci wrote: 2 years ago I was reading up earlier and saw a clip of Schumacher apparently cutting a corner and going through the grass to take out Cecotto in Hockenheim.

Any idea what’s the background here? Anything I can read more about? At face value it looks like an awful move - the kind that could land you a lifetime ban.

https://youtu.be/xFdoZ-PuQiE

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It seems like at that meeting it was not only Schumacher that was driving a Mercedes and playing dirty tricks.
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Awful! Why would they do that? I had no idea. Looks like it was a team gameplan but entering Schumacher for one race to instruct him to punt another driver off is weird to say the least
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