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(L to R): Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari with Zinedine Zidane (FRA) Retired Football Player. Formula One World Championship, Rd 8, French Grand Prix, Qualifying Day, Magny-Cours, France, Saturday 30 June 2007. World © Sutton

Two retired sport icons - seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and soccer legend Zinedine Zidane - in one car. That alone would make headlines.

Add in the fact that the vehicle - a Ferrari FXX - was Schumacher’s personal car (one of only 30 built), that it was Zidane’s track baptism and that the route was a fast lap of Magny-Cours -...

Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren.
Formula One World Championship, Rd 8, French Grand Prix, Qualifying Day, Magny-Cours, France, Saturday, 30 June 2007

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on ending Lewis Hamilton’s run of two consecutive pole positions; David Coulthard on more reliability issues at Red Bull; and Alexander Wurz on his qualifying woes for Williams. All 22 drivers report back on Saturday’s action…

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