Michael Schumacher’s Eternal F1 Rival Damon Hill Reveals Unlikely Scuba Diving Rendezvous

The Michael Schumacher saga is something an F1 fan would look back at, no matter how far into the future they’ve arrived. From almost being kicked out of Ferrari to winning 5 back-to-back world championship titles over the subsequent years is certainly one of the most mind-blowing chapters of his legendary career.

Apart from the Ferrari dominance, there are also the numerous rivalries he was involved in, from Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill, and Mika Hakkinen to Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg. Well, here’s something interesting about Schumacher and Hill.

Only a year prior to the controversial crash in Melbourne, Hill had coincidentally met Schumacher while going scuba diving in Australia. The Briton further revealed that he was more scared of Schumacher than the circling Sharks.

What did Hill say about Michael Schumacher?

During a podcast, Tom Clarkson questioned Hill whether he would go surfing on the Red Sea amidst F1’s forthcoming race weekend in Saudi Arabia. However, Hill reckoned he doesn’t enjoy going into the water and went on to reveal a story starring his German rival.

“I don’t really like wearing goggles on and going on the water much. I did scuba diving with Michael Schumacher. Well, it was ’93, we went scuba diving. Ended up on the same boat going scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia,” he said, during the F1 Nation Podcast.

“No, we hadn’t organized to do it together. But, this was before everything kicked off between me and him. But, even so, I didn’t know if I was more frightened of the Sharks or him. I kept looking at my shoulder.”

Jack Plooij joins the conversation

Following Hill’s interesting narrative, Ziggo TV reporter, Jack Plooij, went on to joke about how Schumacher would have wanted to win against the British driver even in scuba diving.

“Did he win? When Michael does something with you, he wants to win,” Plooij said, to which the Briton replied, “He wanted to go deeper, didn’t he? Yeah. It’s very scary, you know. You get to the edge of it, and then there is just an abyss. You’re going to the edge of the coral and it just goes deeper and darker.”

Overall, pretty much the entire world is still not over Schumacher’s rather unpleasant tactic against the Briton in Australia, 1994. So, let’s hear it from you; Where do you stand in this controversy? Do you defend Schumacher’s game-changing move?

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