Bertrand Gachot: Last News

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Mick Schumacher will make his Spa F1 debut at the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend - 30 years after the same circuit kick-started dad Michael's own amazing career.On this day in 1991 the elder Schumacher, 52, was summoned as a replacement driver for Jordan to fill the void of the imprisoned Bertrand Gachot.

Michael Schumacher’s F1 debut, when he brilliantly put his Jordan seventh on the grid, only for the car’s clutch to fail on the opening lap and force him into retirement. READ MORE: Ten Formula 1 drivers you completely forgot about - and what they are up to now Given how the race played out, with the other Jordan driver, Andrea de Cesaris, chasing down winner Ayrton Senna in the closing stages before suffering an engine problem, it is not outlandish to suggest Schumacher could have been in the fight for victory.But it is circumstances which paved the way for Schumacher’s debut which were most extraordinary.Jordan, in their debut season in the sport, had run De Cesaris and Luxembourg-born Bertrand Gachot.

Formula One fans have a chance to own a unique piece of history after the iconic Jordan 191 in which Michael Schumacher made his debut was put up for sale.Schumacher took F1 by storm after beating his more senior team-mate, Andrea de Cesaris, in practice at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix as a late replacement for Bertrand Gachot.The German was just 22 when he was called to fill in for Jordan-Ford driver Gachot, who had been imprisoned for his role in an altercation with a London taxi driver in December 1990.Chassis No.