Schumi’s nine-year old son follows in his famous dad’s tyre treads

Just when you thought it was finally safe to go back to F1 without being forced to endure the Sunday spectacle of Michael Schumacher (pictured above, taking part in a kart race back in 1984) grinning inanely from the top step of the podium, there comes the ominous news that his nine-year-old kid, Mick, is starting out on a racing career. Scheisse, as they say in Germany.

“Schumi III” (Michael is I, Ralf is II) competed in his first race, a karting event in Spain, but used his mother Corinna’s maiden name, Betsch, to avoid a media scrum. He finished his two races at the Sils circuit, near Gerona, in tenth and eighth.