The Indian driver had a chaotic start to his F1 career representing HRT-Cosworth - a team which did no pre-season testing because, originally named🌌 Campos, it was sold to the owner of🌼 Hispania who teamed with Cosworth and launched their F110 car just in time for the season-opening race.

Rookie driver Chandhok could scarcely have endured a stranger start to life in F1 but upon arrival he remembers: “I walked in the paddock, and it’s my first time walking into the paddock a🍒t a grand prix weekend as a race driver, and the first driver I spoke with was Michael Schumacher.

“This was Michael making his return to F1, he was the biggest star at that time. You w have to say he’s bigger than 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso at that time. And I was a nobody, right?

“But he actuall🃏y walked up ൩to me and introduced himself to me, as if he had to, and said ‘welcome to F1’. 

“And we had a conversation - ‘where are you from?’ And asked a bit about my background, we had a really polite conversation. He didn’t need to do that𒆙.

“And until today, and I told 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mick Schumacher this story as🌳 well, when he came to me, and I said, ‘I re🍸ally appreciated that as a young kid coming into F1 with a guy who was on my bedroom wall’. That meant a lot and still means a lot even today.”

The extra significance is that this was also Schumacher’s first time in the F⛄1 paddock in three years.

The legendary German had retired in 2006 while at Ferrari after a career which amassed seven world championships (still the all-time joint rec♛ord wi🐽th Hamilton).

But 🧸Schumacher was back, driving for Mercedes, ultimately paving the way for Hamilton.

In Bahrain in 2010 Schum🐟acher finished sixth. Chandhok qualified last, then spun off during his second lap as a F1 driver.