Jul.15 (GMM) The F1 drivers' football team, the Nazionale Piloti, will take on a German celebrity side at Darmstadt, about a 45 minute drive from Hockenheim, on Wednesday evening. Michael Schumacher is expected to play.
-Joint championship points leader Lewis Hamilton went head-to-head in his McLaren with an executive Learjet plane at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire (UK). When asked how it felt to be racing a plane, the 23-year-old smiled: "It was above me, so I couldn't actually see it!"-A spectacle of a different kind took place at the Hockenheim test last week. Sebastian Vettel stood on the roof of a Toro Rosso transporter as a Red Bull-sponsored motorcycle stuntsman jumped over both. "Wow!" the young German shouted down to the assembled spectators.