On Thursday Michael Schumacher will be 50 years old. The severe skiing accident five years ago changed his life dramatically, but the life’s work of the formula 1-record world champion is untouchable.
It’s been quiet on the Michael Schumacher. Since his skiing accident five years ago, on 29. December 2013 in the French Alps, Schumacher’s life from one second to the other more altered than his countless achievements, titles and awards, he lives isolated in his Swiss house. 50. Birthday Schumacher is on 3. January shielded from the Public experience. What remains is the memory.
“Of course, puts me first, the Moment in the head, as Michael has been delivered to me at the time, the wreath of victory in the kart race,” says Sebastian Vettel. At the time, Vettel was still a little Boy, Schumacher, but already a fixture in the formula 1 circus. Already for a long time, Schumacher is now Vettel’s buddy, nor longer be a role model. Michael Schumacher – seven-time world champion and 91-time Grand Prix-winner, the record-man of formula 1.
Nico Rosberg: “That was incredible”
As a racer, Schumacher was a phenomenon: a exceptional in his profession. A frontier-shifter, a better maker. “Michael Schumacher was able to ask you questions holes in the abdomen. He just wanted to know what he’s talking about,” explains the former head of Mercedes Motorsport, Norbert Haug, in an interview with the dpa. What he was doing, he wanted to make it right. Perfect. “One feature that I found really fascinating was the energy he put into this profession, into racing. That was awesome, limitless, and really incredible,” says Nico Rosberg, who was Schumacher’s team-mate at Mercedes, after the then 41-Year-old after three years Break from racing, celebrated starting in 2010, a Comeback.
Michael Schumacher celebrated his first world championship title in formula 1
But what actually makes a world-class racer? You are born as a world-class racer? “If the racing is sometimes a bit wrong from the outside, as it would be driven by madness. That’s exactly what it is not,” says Haug: “There is a high degree of control at the highest speed.” And the Knowledge that any error can have devastating consequences. Already at an early career stage, Schumacher passed directly before the eyes.
He was on 1. In may 1994 when Ayrton Senna, an icon of Motorsport’s Premier class, died in an accident in Imola fatal. It was the black weekend of formula 1. The day before Senna and the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger, had not survived an accident. Schumacher won the race and repeated this year for the first Time in the world Cup.
Five titles with Ferrari in a row
Schumacher remained of serious injuries or accidents during his career, mostly spared. He pushed the boundaries, the rules and the behavior on the track. Be the most serious formula 1 accident occurred in 1999 at Silverstone as Schumacher is at the end of a curve in the stack of Tyres crashed and broke his leg seemed. A year later, his Titelära in the Ferrari began with five world Cup triumphs in the series. “He has set a standard of dominance, even if it was sometimes controversial,” says Damon Hill.
Thrilling duels: Damon Hill (R) and Schumacher (l.)
The 58-Year-old knows what he’s talking about. In the list of the rivals, who fought with Schumacher for the world Cup, also appears in Hill. In 1994 the two world Championships, the rivals drove each other into the car, 1995 was Hill, his rival in the Benetton was beaten again. In 1996, the British defeated the Germans. With seven world championship titles, Schumacher is unmatched until today. “To win seven titles is insane,” says Hill with a slightly disbelieving shake of the head and a Smile.
In the go-Kart Schumacher lays the Foundation stone
Schumacher earned his successes: a Car mechanic, no wealthy parents, the father worked as a groundsman of a go-kart track, the mother operating the Kiosk. The rise of a simple boy from a simple background. “These raw, natural Hunger You can’t beat,” said a few weeks ago Lewis Hamilton in a Reuters Interview. Together with brother Ralf Schumacher drove in the go-kart track in Kerpen, where he also laid the Foundation for his unique career.
What remains today are the memories. Seven world titles, over 300 races, legendary two fights, freak outs, like in the world Cup final in 1997, when he rammed his former adversary Jacques Villeneuve in Jerez de la Frontera from the slopes. Schumacher were known then all the points but, the world title went to Villeneuve. But Schumacher was a team player, a true leader. “Quick racing the shooting in the club of the Best. But to form a Team, build it up with setbacks that makes the difference between very good and very, very good drivers,” says Norbert Haug.
Lewis Hamilton: “He will always remain the Greatest of all time”
Seven-Time Schumacher formula 1 world champion is unmatched till today
At the end of all the sporting triumphs of a tragedy, this damned 29. In December 2013, without the story of Michael Schumacher no longer tell today. However, the seriousness of the skiing accident of the formula 1-record world champion to at least 3 am. January, when Schumacher is 50 years old, still significantly behind the live performance of the giants.
“He will always remain the Greatest of all time”, paid tribute to Lewis Hamilton, recently published in the “Bild am Sonntag” his Idol, and admitted: “personally, I remind myself that I’ve taken in my racing game on the console always have him as a driver when I was young.” How is Michael Schumacher today? How is he his 50. Anniversary to celebrate? Schumacher has his private life always be protected and never released to the Public. This is still the case today, and will continue to be for his birthday, nothing.
In the best of hands
A day before his 50. has contacted the family with a Statement on the official Facebook page to the Public. “We are delighted and want us to whole-heartedly thank you for your Michaels 50. Birthday together with him and with us to celebrate,” reads: “Michael can be proud of what he has achieved, and we are it.” In the Statement, the family asks that in addition to understanding that there is no information about the current health condition of Schumacher: “you can be sure that he is in the best hands and we will do everything possible to help him. Please understand, if we follow your choice to Michaels and a subject as sensitive as health, so as before, in the privacy of leave.”