These gloves are outstanding pieces. They have been used during the 1992 Belgium / SPA GP. It was Schumacher's first victory in F1. We are currently framing the gloves.

On this day in 1992, Michael Schumacher won for the first time in his F1 career in front of two Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese after switching to dry tyres at the right moment.

Mansell won a commanding pole position with 2.198 seconds ahead of Senna and 2.676 seconds ahead of third-placed Schumacher, but race was held in very wet conditions.

In 1991, Schumacher debuted at Spa in Jordan, having qualified in seventh place, but quickly dropped out of the race due to car failure. But a year later, the German secured his first out of a total of 91 career wins.

The race was led by four drivers, Mansell led for 25 laps, Schumacher 11, Senna 5 and Patrese 3 while Schumacher was third after 30 laps behind Mansell and Patrese. At that point, the Germans went on the grass shortly, after which he and the team decided that it was time to try to move to dry tyres.

That gamble paid off very well because Schumacher overtook Mansell who changed the tyres three laps later and returned 5.7 seconds behind German. Mansell reduced the gap to three seconds, but the problem with the Renault V10 engine forced him to give up the chase for Schumacher. He finished second, 36.6 seconds behind Schumacher while Patrese finished third, 43.9 seconds behind the winner.

“I had a good feeling this weekend, I do not know why, but when I was in the motorhome, I was thinking of a possible victory, but I was only third or fourth, but everything changed!,” commented the delighted Schumacher.

“I got in the dry tyres at the perfect moment, I had a chance to win and decided to try. I was really happy to win without someone having an accident or a car problem, it was a direct fight. Car was better than in qualifying and I thank my team for that. ”“When I went wide in Stavelot, I missed the apex and I turned too late. I was lucky I did not hit the barriers, Martin passed me and I saw that his tyres were blistering so I decided to get in the pits for new tyres right away. Tonight we will have a great celebration for CAMEL BENETTON FORD!”

Schumacher’s victory at the Belgian Belgian is also the last victory for a car with the classic H-Shift pattern. After that, all races were won with sequential gearboxes with gear changing levers behind the steering wheel, pioneered by Ferrari 640 in 1989.

The following pieces are rare and quite original. This matching set consist of a pair of OMP gloves and a Tony Kart steering used during the World Championship Kart in Kerpen in 2001. Both gloves and the steering have been hand signed and dated by Schumacher in black marker. The steering is accompanied by a MS office official certificate.

Schumi did not win any of the two finals, which went to Sauro Cesetti (Kosmic), but thanks to a formidable comeback he managed to finish in 2nd position in the second Final.



Things do not start well in practice



The beginning of the adventure is not the best; in fact, in the last official practice session the conditions of the uncertain asphalt played a bad turn against Schumacher who closed late, in 22nd place, that corresponded to the 11th row in the starting grid of the two heats in the afternoon.



Schumacher's anger



A circumstance that so upset Michael Schumacher that he closed himself inside his “bunker” (the Tony Kart tent guarded by Security) to vent his anger at not being able to race with the frontrunners.

A series of spectacular heats



In the first heat he manages to recover until he finishes eighth; in the second one a contact at the start and a failure of the water pump stop him from going past P15. So even after the heats, Schumi finds himself facing the finals on Sunday afternoon starting from mid-field.



Great feat just missed in Final 2



Champions shine in the rain. The perfect stage for Schumacher. On the extremely insidious asphalt drenched in rain, Schumi finds the right corridor, the outer one, to succeed already on the first lap to parade by in fourth place (another lesson to the "young rascals" of karting). But even on this occasion the German is again unlucky and a front wheel hub breaks, causing him to retire, a bitter end. 


The Schumi-show is repeated at the start of the final 2 and this time he sees the checkered flag that waves him past in third place, turned into a second place after the disqualification of Marco Ardigò (Birel).



Fortunately for everyone, Schumacher renounces rushing to Padua for a charity football match with the drivers team and so, after a wait of about 40 minutes, it was possibile to shoot a photo that immortalized him with the new world champion Liuzzi, Ardigò and Cesetti.


Photo: Schumacher (Tony Kart / Vortex) and Rosberg (Parolin / Parilla) in close contact during the FSA 2001 World in Kerpen (© Actualfoto)

Michael Schumacher OMP gloves used during the 1996 British GP. Both gloves are hand signed, they are dated "14.07.96"