Ferrari celebrates in hair style.
Michael Schumacher's glorious championship victory in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka was not the only 'crowning' that occurred at the Japanese circuit yesterday.
The 21-year wait for a drivers' championship for the Maranello Scuderia was celebrated in style by the mechanics who almost immediately shaved the heads of crucial key team members, led by Schumacher's race engineer Luca Baldisseri. The bespectacled Italian was in his second consecutive title decider at Suzuka, after watching Eddie Irvine succumb to McLaren's Mika Hakkinen last year.
Michael Schumacher's glorious championship victory in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka was not the only 'crowning' that occurred at the Japanese circuit yesterday.
The 21-year wait for a drivers' championship for the Maranello Scuderia was celebrated in style by the mechanics who almost immediately shaved the heads of crucial key team members, led by Schumacher's race engineer Luca Baldisseri. The bespectacled Italian was in his second consecutive title decider at Suzuka, after watching Eddie Irvine succumb to McLaren's Mika Hakkinen last year.
This time, as Schumacher's engineer, Baldisseri was luckier on the circuit, although his curly tresses were immediately targeted by the mechanics - who produced an electric razor for the job. Baldisseri was just the first of several visitors to the barber's chair in a reversal of the Williams celebration at Jerez three years ago, when the Grove team produced yellow wigs to mark the bleach blond Jacques Villeneuve's success.
