Overview

• Flavio Briatore, who recruited Schumacher at Benetton, said he prefers remembering the champion smiling after victory rather than seeing him bedridden.
• Schumacher remains largely immobilized more than 11 years after his 2013 skiing accident and requires constant medical support.
• Only a handful of trusted visitors, including Corinna Schumacher, Jean Todt and Flavio Briatore, have been allowed to see him at his Lake Geneva home.
• Schumacher assisted by his wife recently autographed a helmet for Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity to raise funds for dementia research.
• Close associates have clarified that he no longer speaks verbally and disproved false stories about his presence at private family events.