VIDEO: Bacardi, Maserati, and Michael Schumacher get shaken, not stirred
After seven Formula One World Championships and more records than your local second-hand vinyl shop, Michael Schumacher has proven incredibly adept at driving a point home. Now that he's semi-retired, well...he's still making more money than most of the active drivers in F1 (or any other form of motorsports for that matter), thanks in part to an endorsement deal with Barcardi, the Bermuda-based rum distillery with whom Schumi drives home another kind of point entirely.
To prove the point that drinking and driving don't mix, Schumacher takes once again to the wheel of a Maserati GranTurismo. Only this time he's brought along one Salvatore Calabrese to ride shotgun. Sounds straightforward enough, but the world-renowned bartender known as "The Maestro" isn't coming along just for the ride: while Schumi does what Schumi does best, Calabrese tries to do the same, to highly amusing and illustrative effect. Follow the jump to watch the video.
[Source: Bacardi via YouTube]
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brad 1:46PM (11/09/2009)
Would someone at Autoblog please kill this moron's account - his drivel is as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
Tony 12:36PM (11/09/2009)
So what did that prove? If you drive like a maniac with a guy mixing drinks inside your Maserati, you'll trash the inside of your car?
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brad 1:48PM (11/09/2009)
Sorry, not meant for you Tony - I was writing about that GM drone who was going on with his BS... Not sure why this linked to your post?
carcomptoy 12:40PM (11/09/2009)
I've never drank BaRcardi before...wonder what KIRF rum tastes like...
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HotRodzNKustoms 12:41PM (11/09/2009)
Shut up! Stupid troll
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mfergel 12:42PM (11/09/2009)
That drinking and driving don't mix...........you might hit a bump and spill your drink.
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HotRodzNKustoms 12:42PM (11/09/2009)
Makes... me... want... to try.... Bacardi... Why... am I... typing... like... William Shatner...
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Geekengineer 1:29PM (11/09/2009)
Pausalepsy... is........ conTAGious.. my........ fine sir.
MAXLD 2:25PM (11/09/2009)
There's... someone on the bonnet... some... thing!
I guess the police would not fall for that story if Schumi was stopped on his way home.
"- What the deuce... It stinks in there!
- It's not what what it looks like, mr. officer. I was filming a Bacardi add.
- Forget it, I've heard that one before! Hands on your head, mr. Shoemaker."
audi_arena 12:45PM (11/09/2009)
I think the first batch of comercials (where they had schuey driving with a bunch of people yelling in the passanger seat and other conditions designed to mimic being drunk) was much more relavant. This one is pretty funny and just serves to drive the point home.
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Yar 12:45PM (11/09/2009)
Drink beer. It comes in a can and fits in the cup holder.
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HotRodzNKustoms 12:49PM (11/09/2009)
Or drive a Bentley or Vanden Plas Jag so then you can have tables
Steve_S 12:50PM (11/09/2009)
Too bad they didn't show more of the GT, love that car.
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JayP 1:20PM (11/09/2009)
Sounded great too.
nightmonkeyGT 1:15PM (11/09/2009)
I bet you they got the idea from Top Gear when Jamie Oliver tried to make a salad in a van while the stig was doing a hot lap.
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commandercool 7:05PM (11/09/2009)
link please
Scott 1:30PM (11/09/2009)
Watch Michael Race in a go-kart in Vegas in less than 2 weeks:
http://www.tonykart.com/uk/news/news_dettaglio_tonykart.asp?Cod=137
http://www.superkartsusa.com/supernationals/
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alfietcr 1:24PM (11/09/2009)
Bermuda based???? bermuda based???? Sorry but its called Puertorican Rum not bermudan rum!!!! Its Called puertorican rum because...well its made in Puerto Rico!!!! BTW i love the Hawaiian based Jack Daniels Wisky
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Kaveh 2:20PM (11/09/2009)
Poor Maserati
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glovesoff 2:20PM (11/09/2009)
I wish they would've had Schumacher drive drunk. that way they could say "even the best driver in the world cannot drive drunk". it would've been more entertaining
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