Michael Schumacher, endurance years

At the end of 1990, Michael Schumacher joined the Mercedes junior racing programme in the World Sports-Prototype championship. He won the season’s finale in Mexico in a Sauber-Mercedes C11 and continued with the team in 1991, winning again at the season’s finale at Autopolis in Japan in a Sauber-Mercedes C291.

Schumacher also competed in the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing fifth in a car shared with Karl Wendlinger and Fritz Kreutzpointer. He further competed in one race in the 1991 Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second.