Netflix reveals touching new photos of Michael Schumacher in season 5 of its documentary series Formula 1: Drivers of their destiny. Decryption.
It has been almost ten years since Michael Schumacher deserted the Formula 1 circuits. On December 29, 2013, the Red Baron was skiing in Méribel in Savoie with his son Mick and three friends when his head hit a rock. The impact had caused a serious cranial trauma coupled with a cerebral hemorrhage, plunging the Formula 1 driver into a coma. The Schumacher family has maintained an ominous silence ever since about his medical condition. In the meantime, motor racing enthusiasts can now console themselves with unpublished shots of the 54-year-old champion in the fifth season of the documentary series Formula 1: Drivers of their destiny, available from this Friday, February 24 on Netflix. One of them shows us Michael Schumacher holding on his lap his daughter Gina Maria and the very young Max Verstappenfuture double Formula 1 world champion.
An article by our British colleagues from Mirror that these touching images bring to light the close link between Michael Schumacher and his spiritual son. It was thanks to his father Jos, a famous Dutch driver, that Max Verstappen, now 25, knew the Red Baron. ‘Mad Max’ dad befriended Michael Schumacher in Bennetton in 1994. “We used to go on vacation together when we were little, the two families, and these kinds of memories will always be engraved in my mind.“, had told the Dutch pilot in a previous interview granted to the Sun. A clan of pilots who found themselves on the asphalt several times. “For both of us being in F1 is amazing, as for Michael he is a very proud father“, testified Max Verstappen in the British tabloid.
This inappropriate comment on the son of Michael Schumacher who outrages Internet users
The trailer for the new season of Formula 1: Drive to Survive had provoked outrage on social media when it went live last week. We discovered selected fragments of the ten episodes, accompanied by the best punchlines of the speakers from the world of motor racing. One of these comments supposed to tickle curiosity unfortunately did not please fans of Michael Schumacher. We hear it Gene Haas, the owner of Haas F1 Team, comparing his son Mike has a “Undead“ in reference to the German driver going off the road during the 27th lap of the Monaco Grand Prix last year. The murderous outing was not to the liking of fans of big cars, still reeling from the ski accident that plunged Michael Schumacher into a coma. “The fact that Netflix titled the episode dedicated to Mick’Like father, like son‘ and that’he refers to Mick as a ‘dead man‘ is really disgusting and despicable“, we could thus read on social networks.