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Michael Schumacher got big break after F1 driver was jailed for using CS gas on taxi driver
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.