Schumacher made honorary citizen
Filed Under: Drivers, F1 News, Former, Michael Schumacher
Maranello, the town in Northern Italy famous for being the home of the Prancing Horse factory and F1 team, has made Michael Schumacher an honorary citizen. Although Schumacher was born in the Kerpen, Germany and is currently a Swiss resident, the mayor of Maranello, Lucia Bursi, has granted Schumacher the honour because of his career and contribution to Ferrari.
“With his fantastic sporting career, Schumacher was part of a very important section of Maranello’s history. With this gesture, we would like to say ‘thank you’ to him.”
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Sarah | Nov 27, 2006 | Reply
However his home town of Kerpen have rejected calls for him to be honoured. An official from Kerpen has told a German journalist that “The honour should be given to someone who worked for many years and maybe even decades for the benefit of our town, Kerpen.”