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Word around Europe is that former world forumula one champion Michael Schumacher can still throw a car around. When late for a flight, he asked the cab driver if he wouldn’t mind letting the passenger take the wheel.

The cabbie complied and Schumacher gave him the ride of his life, according to Agence France Presse.

“I found myself in the passenger seat, which was strange enough, but to have ‘Schumi’ behind the wheel of my cab was incredible,” driver Tincer Yilmaz told the Muenchner Abendzeitung.

“He drove at full throttle around the corners and over-took in some unbelievable places.”

Schumacher’s spokeswoman confirmed the story.

In exchange for the quicker ride, Schumacher tipped the driver more than 100%.

Wonder if “Michael Schumacher is driving a cab at 120 miles per hour” constitutes “anything unusual” under the new security signs posted on the way to MSP?

Story here.

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