And suddenly everything is completely different... (Review 2022)
01/01/2023
On December 29, 2013, the lives of Michael and the entire Schumacher family changed completely. A trivial skiing accident and everything was different! That doesn't go unnoticed when you know that you have photographed all of Michael's F1 races.
The year 2022 also changed my life, because for the first time since 1976, I didn't photograph a single actual car race. The corona period has changed so much in motorsport and also in my beloved job. But it doesn't really matter, because I'm still in good health and I also really enjoy the history of motorsport. Having followed all the Sauber racing cars from the C5 (1976) to the present day, I am now always trying to reappraise the history of one racing car or another - not just the Hinwil cars, of course - with old and new pictures, most of which are still unknown, and to show them to anyone interested in our publications. Sometimes a story takes a little longer than planned; the Sauber C1, for example, took a whole three years to complete, as the coronavirus pandemic postponed the planned anniversary deployment on the Kerenzerberg for years after 50 years. The seat test in Peter Sauber's first and now rebuilt racing car actually took place in May 2019. But the story without the car now driving again with the builder himself in the cockpit would have been like a movie without an ending. In the end, it did appear in SwissClassics Revue 5/2022.
The technology has changed enormously over the years, but the people behind it are still the same and so all the personal conversations are extremely exciting. As in "Persönlich", a radio program on SRF, in which previously unknown people often talk about their lives, interesting stories also come to light time and again with the already well-known personalities, many of which are almost unimaginable in this day and age and that is precisely what makes them so exciting. That is why I am committed to ensuring that such stories are preserved for posterity.
The significance of today's photos has become almost completely insignificant, far too much is photographed and immediately sent around the world in huge quantities. However, the importance of historical photographs is slowly but surely increasing. These are pictures that can never be taken again, because the circumstances will never be the same and because manufacturers or protagonists would no longer be prepared to do so.
That's why we always endeavor to complete the current photo material for all our articles with as many historical insights as possible. This is very time-consuming and costs a lot of time and money. It is certainly understandable that we cannot do this for God's reward, given that the editorial team has now grown to include more and more people. The so-called "paywall" ensures that certain articles can only be read by paying readers. With the income from these so-called premium memberships, we will continue to finance the elaborate reports and articles that have made zwischengas.com a standard on the Internet.
December 29, 2022 is already history, but this day has also set another example with my father's 91st birthday and the death of Pelé, the Brazilian football star of the century, nine years after Michael Schumacher's skiing accident. I know very well that many years ago I photographed the two superstars Schumi and Pelé together at the Brazilian GP in Interlagos and gave the picture to Schumi as an enlargement. But when I went to pull it out, I couldn't remember which folder or box in my archive of around a million pictures might contain this single, analog slide ...
