The Formula One racing season begins this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix but racers and colleagues of the ill-fated former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher can’t help but think of their fallen comrade.
Schumacher’s sorry physical state, although his doctors and family members refuse to confirm, has become the subject and talks not only in the racing circles but also of many fans the world over particularly in various internet news sites.
British business magnate Bernard Charles ‘Bernie’ Ecclestone, chief executive of the Formula One Group which controls the commercial rights to the Formula One sport, expressed forlorn over the fate of the seven-time German Formula One world champion.
He describes what happened to Michael Schumacher as a tragedy and he really feels for the German racer and his family, having known and worked with the F1 racer for close to two decades.
More logical
Ecclestone admits that he is not aware of the current physical and medical condition of Michael Schumacher because of the news blackout imposed by the racer’s family members.
In an interview with a German media outlet, the Formula One Group boss also said that he finds it strange that Michael is suffering from his tragedy as a result of accident in skiing.
He said that it would have been more logical if the former world champion had his accident in racing, details Crossmap.
Ecclestone also cited that the ski accident was the tragedy of Michael Schumacher’ life story. He said that he still cannot believe at this point how it happened to Schumi outside of the race track, citing that the German racer has had numerous crashes and took a lot of risks in the sport that he loves so much.
The Formula One boss said that he also finds it absurd that an accident has befallen Schumacher while skiing on the French Alps late in December 2013 because it was not even a skiing race.
A great legacy
Schumi may have left the sport rather abruptly but his legacy to Formula One racing is very much alive. He is considered as the most statistically successful driver in the history of Formula One for having won 91 Grand Prix races during his prestigious racing career.
After his ski accident, the German car racer was in a coma for nearly six months. He has since wake up from the condition but is said to be paralyzed and still cannot talk due to the tremendous amount of head injuries he sustained as a result of the ski accident.
He is now recuperating and is being treated and rehabilitated at his home in Lake Geneva in Switzerland that now has a medical suite, under the care of wife Corinna and a team of doctors, who have vowed to the confidentiality. The only source of information about the German racer’s condition is through his close friends and colleagues, which hardly offer anything much at all.