German legend puts Scud through its paces

More footage of Schumi - the ultimate Ferrari company man - at the wheel of the 430 Scud, this time with onboard shots as he dicks about on the Fiorano test track.

That brings the number of Schumacher/430 stories posted on Grid Crasher this week to three. What can we say? We heart Michael, whether he’s crashing/not crashing.

Schumi didn’t write off prototype, say Ferrari

We told you yesterday that Michael Schumacher crashed a 430 Scuderia proto (not pictured above) whilst testing at the Nurburgring. Looks like we were wrong.

Ferrari has come out and denied Schumi’s involvement in the incident. Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni claimed that Schumi was in the passenger seat, and that it was test driver Raffaele de Simone at the wheel.

However, Bild newspaper reports that eyewitnesses saw Schumacher in the driving seat. Could this be a Ferrari cover-up, with de Simone cast as the fall guy? Unless de Simone or Schumi tells the truth, we may never know who was at the wheel.

Either way, we’ve tracked down a video of Schumacher testing the 430 Scud. You can watch it after the jump…

Schumi bins it again

News has reached us that Herr Schumi crashed a prototype Ferrari road car last week while testing at the Nurburgring. What’s the German for oops?

The F1 legend was not injured when his 430 Scuderia hit a guardrail doing 250kph (about 160mph), but the car was written off. In Schumi’s defence, the notoriously tricky circuit was damp, making track conditions even more difficult than usual. He’s not the first professional racing driver to fall foul of the Nordschleife’s quirks, and he won’t be the last.

How come he never crashed this much in F1? If you include bike dumps, that’s about the fourth crash he’s had this year.

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