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Michael Schumacher Ferrari is a character in Cars.

Official Description[]

"With over 90 wins and seven championship titles to his name, Formula One racer Michael Schumacher is one of the most celebrated racecars ever. Born into humble origins, he grew up on the local short track his father maintained, and developed the skills he would need to become one of the most accomplished athletes in the world. Making his way up the ranks of the European road racing leagues, he went on to achieve a racing career so successful that his record will most likely never be surpassed. But when it comes down to it, there's nothing Michael loves more than spending time with his loving family."[1]

Cars[]

At the end of the film, Schumacher visits Luigi's Casa Della Tires with Antonio Veloce Eccellente and Costanzo Della Corsa to get some tires from Luigi and Guido, having heard from Lightning McQueen that they are the best tire sellers. However, Luigi faints from excitement of seeing a Ferrari in his store. Schumacher addresses himself to Guido, saying "I hope your friend recovers. They tell me you are fantastic." in Italian, which causes Guido to faint as well. In the mid-credits scene, Michael is seen in the crowd attending at the reopening of the Wheel Well Motel.

Cars 2[]

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Five red Ferraris appearing simultaneously in Cars 2

Many red Ferrari F430s similar to Michael Schumacher appear in Cars 2, however, the character doesn't appear in the sequel. None of all these Ferraris seems to have eyes of the same color as Schumacher (his eyes are blue, while theirs are brown), as well as lacking any Ferrari emblems.

Trivia[]

  • Michael Schumacher has been released in the Cars Die-Cast Line.
  • He is voiced by and based on the real seven-time world championship racer Michael Schumacher.
    • Also in the same year, after the release of Cars, Michael Schumacher was about to retire. He was also in contention of winning an 8th straight world title; though he would lose it to Fernando Alonso, who also voiced Mario Andretti in the Spanish version of the Cars, and would later voice a car version of himself in the Spanish version of the second film, as well as Hamilton in the Spanish version of the third film.
  • He is modeled after a 2004 Ferrari F430.
  • According to his biography in Car Finder, he's won seven championships though it is labelled that he raced in Formula One. It is unknown if he was a F1 car himself before he became an F430, though it is seemingly implied that he may have switched his body to a regular car when not racing. This is most likely intentional because in one of the deleted scenes of the movie, which is "Community Service", Lightning McQueen had his body switched on a steam roller during a dream sequence when he preferred community service instead of racing while Mater was put on McQueen's body.

Die-casts[]

References[]

  1. "Car Finder" (supplementary material on Blu-ray Disc release of Cars). 2007. Blu-ray Disc. Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2007.
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