Silver SS
May 31st, 2004, 04:46 PM
Formula One drivers can do more than take a corner at 250 kilometres per hour.
Spanish sensation Fernando Alonso, the sport's youngest-ever winner, picked up the skill of performing magic-tricks with a pack of cards when at school.
'Since then it's something I've always loved doing,' he told The Guardian.
Renault team-mate Jarno Trulli is a keen maker of red-wine and tends to his own vineyards near his home-town in Italy when not tearing-up the race-tracks.
His full-bodied 'Podere Castorani' can be bought in Britain.
'The whole process ... can't be hurried,' Trulli insisted.
Another racing-Italian, Sauber's new-recruit Giancarlo Fisichella, is a dab-hand at making pizza and has an authentic pizza-oven at his villa just outside Rome.
WELCOME CHANGE
'The result is always crisp and juicy,' said a friend.
World champion Michael Schumacher's other passion is on the soccer-pitch and the German is often seen scoring a goal or two for local Swiss club Echichens.
He says: 'It's a welcome change from my normal training.'
McLaren tester Alex Wurz, in Melbourne this weekend, is a champion mountain-bike rider but the team's race ace Kimi Raikkonen always preferred ice-hockey.
'When I was younger, I had to choose,' said the Finn. 'I went for motor racing because it meant I didn't have to get up quite so early in the morning.'
David Coulthard owns and runs a five-star Monte-Carlo hotel in his spare-time.
'I don't have any direct hands-on or management control,' said the Scot, 'but I do like to look around and make sure everything is just right.'
McLaren chief Ron Dennis collects old microscopes and, now that Frank Williams' jogging-days are over, the Briton records aircraft-registration numbers.
Spanish sensation Fernando Alonso, the sport's youngest-ever winner, picked up the skill of performing magic-tricks with a pack of cards when at school.
'Since then it's something I've always loved doing,' he told The Guardian.
Renault team-mate Jarno Trulli is a keen maker of red-wine and tends to his own vineyards near his home-town in Italy when not tearing-up the race-tracks.
His full-bodied 'Podere Castorani' can be bought in Britain.
'The whole process ... can't be hurried,' Trulli insisted.
Another racing-Italian, Sauber's new-recruit Giancarlo Fisichella, is a dab-hand at making pizza and has an authentic pizza-oven at his villa just outside Rome.
WELCOME CHANGE
'The result is always crisp and juicy,' said a friend.
World champion Michael Schumacher's other passion is on the soccer-pitch and the German is often seen scoring a goal or two for local Swiss club Echichens.
He says: 'It's a welcome change from my normal training.'
McLaren tester Alex Wurz, in Melbourne this weekend, is a champion mountain-bike rider but the team's race ace Kimi Raikkonen always preferred ice-hockey.
'When I was younger, I had to choose,' said the Finn. 'I went for motor racing because it meant I didn't have to get up quite so early in the morning.'
David Coulthard owns and runs a five-star Monte-Carlo hotel in his spare-time.
'I don't have any direct hands-on or management control,' said the Scot, 'but I do like to look around and make sure everything is just right.'
McLaren chief Ron Dennis collects old microscopes and, now that Frank Williams' jogging-days are over, the Briton records aircraft-registration numbers.