Who will be 50 years old, is celebrated. Especially, if he is the most successful formula 1 driver of the story. Michael Schumacher is on 3. January 1969, in Hürth near Cologne, Germany, was born.
How to do it Schumacher?
New from Schumacher. How is he today, as he will celebrate the milestone birthday, knows only a close circle of relatives, friends and carers. Because for five years, since Michael Schumacher on 29. December, tragically died in 2013 in the French Alps while skiing, there is a news blackout about the state of the Champions imposed by Schumacher’s wife Corinna.
We know officially only that he suffered back in Méribel, a skull-brain Trauma. And that Schumacher, whose most serious injury was as a formula 1 Pilot in the leg break of 1999 in Silverstone, is still in Rehabilitation at his Swiss estate in the vicinity of Geneva.
there Are 50. a special message from the family to the Fans?
Yes, on the occasion of the birth day, she said in a message of Thanks: “thank you for understanding when we make your choice according to Michaels and a subject as sensitive as health, so as before, in the privacy of leave.” It continues: “Michael can be proud of what he has achieved, and we are it.”
on the Occasion of the birth day draws the attention of the family on some of the actions to “Michael’s successes to reminisce”. So Keep Fighting Foundation have created a virtual Museum, which will publish on Thursday as the official “Michael Schumacher” App. Also am reminded by the exhibition in Cologne, and by the continuation of his charitable work on Schumacher’s live performance.
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What else is yet to penetrate to the outside?
The only person who was allowed to talk to after a visit to Schumacher a little bit about, was Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Schumacher, in the summer of 2016 in Switzerland – which was only recently known. “You feel that he encounters true that he carries with himself an inner monologue. You can feel the closeness of his family is important to him,” said Gänswein And: “His face is as we all know, the typical Michael-Schumacher-to-face; only a little fuller it has become.”
How it began in formula 1?
To hear of a real hero story is a myth of the beginnings, and were able to offer Schumacher and Willi Weber, who was, until 2010, his Manager,. It will have this hostel in the Belgian city of Spa, in which the two, still relatively poor and unknown, stayed the night, before Schumacher on the winding Ardennes course, which always remained his favorite course, at 25. August 1991, in the formula 1 debut.
Bertrand Gachot, then a Pilot in the Jordan Team, had sprayed a English taxi driver in a dispute with tear gas and was serving a prison sentence. The Cockpit was in the short term, free, Schumacher and Weber took advantage of the opportunity, but found no hotel rooms. You had to take what they could get: the said hostel. Schumacher drove one race for Jordan, then moved to Benetton and was world champion in 1994 as the first German formula 1.
Was it because a career without reproach?
A Great in his field has opponents and enemies. So, too, Schumacher passed as many Champions the limits of the Allowed touched and sometimes. The title of the “cheat-Schumi” was he finally, as he was in the 1994 season finale, the English counterparty Damon Hill of the track stabbed in the standings, a point behind him. Both had to be avoided. The world title went to Schumacher. Some English journalists hated him ever since. Hill has forgiven him: “Michael has set a standard of dominance, even if it was sometimes controversial,” said the now 58-Year-old recently.
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His major successes Schumacher scored Ferrari. How did the Italians, from the racing driver come true?
Hardly any other sportsman has done so much for the German-Italian friendship like Schumacher, they called in Italy “Maikel Sciumaker”. He drove from 1996 to 2006 for Italy’s national Shrine to Ferrari and won with the Scuderia after a hard day of construction from 2000 to 2004, five world Cup titles as a driver.
At the beginning, the Italians took it as a cool German true, the spoke bad Italian. But by 2003, she discovered his human side. In the Morning before the Grand Prix of San Marino in Imola, Schumacher’s mother, Elisabeth, died at the age of 55 of cancer. Schumacher finished the race with a black ribbon, and won it, and broke out at the press conference in tears. To wrote to his departure in 2006, the Italian daily newspaper “La Repubblica”: The robot that liked us in the beginning, it managed to give us great emotions.” The Ferrari mechanic gave him a signed photo: “uno di noi” – You’re one of us.
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How it was in the formula-1-retirement?
Schumacher could not enjoy. He drove a motorcycle race, and suffered in an accident, a neck injury, which prevented him from in the summer of 2009, his Comeback, as the Ferrari was seeking a replacement for the injured Felipe Massa. Finally, he returned in 2010 and drove for three years for the new Mercedes factory team. Only in 2012, in Valencia, he came in the Top three.
However, he was of the view that the former team boss Ross Brawn valuable construction work. “Michael has contributed something to the organization and structure, which later ensured the success with Mercedes,” said the Englishman, referring to the world title, the Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018) and Nico Rosberg (2016).
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Who knows, maybe there is soon again a Schumacher in formula 1. Michael’s 19-year-old son Mick Schumacher, is an aspiring racing driver, says with shining eyes: “My dad is the Best and my Idol.”
