For those of you who are new to Formula 1 racing and the world of motorsports, Michael Schumacher was the king of the sport. He won the F1 championship 7 times including five consecutive titles and earned over $50 million a year, not a bad career and for a normal person the end to a career racing.

Well Schumacher had recently decided he wanted to compete at motorcycle racing and is course racing this year on a Ducati MotoGP, seen here.

So what happens when Michael Schumacher shows up at Pannonia-Ring in Hungary for a race that mixed professional and amateur riders. On his debut race he ends up taking the pole position from the amateur group only after a couple of practice laps. Not too bad.

The professionals started in the back of the grid as this was sort of a Pro-Am and Schumacher decides to start in the back with them (last row) on a 1000cc Honda Superbike. While he does not win the race, he does come in 3rd place, not too bad for his first year riding professionally.