Last week there were reports that Michael Schumacher had 'totalled' a Ferrari Scuderia F430 prototype during testing on the Nurburgring's old 'Nordschleife' circuit. The gossip-mags like Bild were all over the story in their inimitable style. Ferrari's spokesman Luca Colajanni 'denied rumours' that Schumi himself had been at the wheel, rather than test-driver Raffaele de Simone; soon after that, Schumacher's own spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm "denied rumours" that Schumacher's 9-year-old son Mick had been in the car at the time.
A less disputed story is that last Sunday in Kent, the former F1 champion had a vehicular altercation with the security barrier at a car dealership, knocking said car dealer onto a nearby car bonnet. Apparently Mr Kingham's first instinct was to phone his business partner:
"You'll never guess who I've been run over by..."


