On December 29, the life of the Schumacher family changed in a fraction of a second. What was supposed to be a harmless ski trip turned into a tragedy. Michael Schumacher falls during a descent and hits his head. Victim of head trauma, he is plunged into a coma.
Eleven years after the accident, his family has given no information about his state of health, but Mick Schumacher, now 25, describes in a new book called “Inside Mercedes F1” how he felt at the accident. era as a teenager. “I had to learn to fly on my own,” says the son of the seven-time world champion.
Mick Schumacher was 14 years old at the time of the incident. Despite this twist of fate, the former karting driver continued his journey. “I have always been very resilient,” he explains in the book, to describe his fight against the shocks of his childhood. “So far, I have overcome every painful obstacle.”
At the age of 15, Mick entered a higher level of motor racing. He lacked his father’s coaching at the time, but before then he had absorbed everything like a sponge, with the big goal of reaching Formula 1. “I benefited a lot from my father’s experience.” On a technical level, but also on a mental coaching level.
His father’s wise advice began at a very young age, as Mick recounts in the book by British author Matt Whyman. “Once, during a kart race, I braked very late in a corner and gained a lot of time. When I told him about it, he said: ‘Very good, but you should have braked like that at every turn!’
Of course, Mick Schumacher also had moments of weakness. “Whenever my dad felt like I wasn’t taking things seriously, he would say ‘Mick, would you rather play football with your friends? If so, we don’t have to do all that.” I insisted that I wanted to go shopping and I kept going.”
