Todt says that Schumacher clinching the world title for Ferrari in 2000 was his best moment in Formula One

Suzuka is the track of dreams. It ranks highly on drivers’ lists of all-time favourite circuits.

For Ferrari it holds special memories. It is the place where Michael Schumacher won their first world championship for more than two decades in 2000.

Jean Todt, the Ferrari team boss at the time and now the FIA president, recalls that moment as his best in the sport. “When people ask me what is my best memory, it’s this one,” the Frenchman says, as he points at a picture hanging in his office at the FIA headquarters in Paris of him lifting Schumacher aloft on the podium.

“That’s Suzuka in 2000. Michael is world champion after 21 years. I remember saying to Michael, ‘On a professional level, things will