Michael Schumacher's House - no kart track? really?

[badbart]

Turns out being a 7 time world champion must be quite lucrative - check out the pad Schumi built for himself and Connie. 29 Car garage is impressive but no kart track with all that available land ???

Anyone else have links to drivers cribs?

[Joe in LA]

There have been a number of stories on Kimi's houses--Finland, Switzerland and Thailand. If you search it, you will find a lot of google map links to the Swiss house. It's unclear which one(s) he still owns. The place in Switzerland looks like the setting for a Bond villian.

Here it is: http://www.reportair.ch/fotos.php?im...gt.jpg&gross=1

[Frank Capua]

Are you sure there's not going to be a kart track... something is still under construction.

[indywulf]

I saw his yacht, "Smooth Operator" in alcudia, Majorca. It is pretty impressive as well.

( Well its impressive unless your Paul Allen, Abramovich or your a member of a middle eastern royal family)

[Hardscrabble]

Eh...it ain't no Biltmore Mansion...

[Dadburgess]

His wife is into show horses, and they spend a fair amount of time at this in the United States. Michael likes to ride Harleys when in the states while she does her thing with her horses.

[lkchris]

Well, his family owned a kart track as we was growing up ... .

[Frank Capua]

I saw his yacht, "Smooth Operator" in alcudia, Majorca. It is pretty impressive as well.

( Well its impressive unless your Paul Allen, Abramovich or your a member of a middle eastern royal family)

But... Is there a Kart track on that?

[MoparsRule]

His wife is into show horses, and they spend a fair amount of time at this in the United States. Michael likes to ride Harleys when in the states while she does her thing with her horses.

And his bikes are stored at Spykes Harley Davidson in Frankfort, Indiana.

[Frank Capua]

And his bikes are stored at Spykes Harley Davidson in Frankfort, Indiana.

I wonder if she shows her horses at any of the shows in Zionsville?

[Glenn]

I won't be impressed until he has a kart track on his yacht!

[Supernova]

Lake Geneva, Switzerland. A-mazing. Great champion and philanthropist. Back in the day, and according to The Dupont Registry, he was the highest paid athlete followed by Tiger Woods and Oscar de la Hoya.

[ForzaFerrari]

Granted, Switzerland tends to have quite strict laws regarding this type of thing, along the lines of noise and pollution.

Michael has got enough money that if he wants to have a kart day with family and friends, he could just hire a CIK approved track for the day. I believe he still has a contract with TonyKart. He would probably just ring them and they would arrange the whole day with a fleet of preped karts for the day.

Private race tracks are one of those things that have often fascinated me, as I come from a family with farming a farming background so we would often 'build' small dirt tracks to race motorcycles (and occasionally the ute) on. There is a private race track just north of Sydney that is techniccally a private 'road' / long driveway (it still has the have regular advisory signes posted before bends, even though it is clearly shaped like a race track and on private property)

https://maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=U...17037&t=k&z=16

I've ridden my motorbike down there to have a look, but there is a VERY big and solid metal gate that blocks all access. This is farming land up there, and the gate is far, far more serious than anything else in the area (there is a horse stud next to it that just has your typical low farm gate that is chained).

[rrrr]

His wife is into show horses, and they spend a fair amount of time at this in the United States. Michael likes to ride Harleys when in the states while she does her thing with her horses.

I got to meet Schumacher a few years ago...he has good friends that own a ranch near the Texas-Oklahoma border, and he used to go there every year during the F1 North American swing. I was asked to deliver a couple of Harleys to the ranch for Michael to ride during the week he was there.

While I was unloading the bikes he arrived from a trip to the grocery store in the nearby small town...he told me no one recognizes him in North Texas.

[Supernova]

Was at the barbershop this afternoon and picked up to read this past March Forbes issue of billionaires and millionaires in their world rankings. Roger Penske was not in the billionaire ranking. My guess he didn't want to be ranked. At any rate, I found Michael Schumacher worth 500 million dollars. Listed as one of the most richest athletes in the world.