Michael Schumacher was beaten in a head-to-head race against a Eurofighter jet in Italy on Thursday.
The challenge took place at the Italian Aeronautica Militare air base at Grosseto and saw Schumacher’s Ferrari F2003-GA race the jet over three separate distances.
Schumacher was quicker over 600 metres – clocking 9.4s to the jet’s 9.6s – but lost out over longer runs of 900m and 1200m.
The Typhoon IPA2 was fractionally quicker in the middle run (13s dead opposed to the Ferrari’s 13.2s) but was a whole 2.5s faster over 1200m, clocking just 14.2s.
The jet was piloted by Maurizio Cheli, chief defence aircraft test
pilot for Alenia Aeronautica. The event marked the twin anniversaries of 100 years of manned flight and 50 years since the death of motor racing legend Tazio Nuvolari.
Nuvolari had himself raced his Alfa Romeo 8C2300 against a Tiger Moth plane, and two of the classic machines were rolled back out to re-enact the historic challenge.
Linear Mode
