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Because of a documentary, the legendary car king Schumacher once again attracted people's attention.
Just last month, Netflix released the documentary of the same name by car king Schumacher, which describes how he grew up to become a professional racing driver.
Schumacher is known as one of the greatest F1 drivers of modern times, winning seven drivers' championships and 91 divisions in his 16-year career, and many even those who don't pay much attention to racing have heard of him.
Unfortunately, on December 29, 2013, the car king had an accident while skiing in the Alps, hitting his head into a rock, suffering a severe blow, and then falling into a coma.
What is touching is that in the past 8 years, his wife Corinne has not abandoned the protection to this day. In order to make him wake up, she did not hesitate to sell her property, hired a medical team of 15 people, and spent 50,000 pounds a week on high treatment fees (equivalent to more than 400,000 yuan).
In the documentary that aired this time, Corinne also appeared.
She told everyone about the unknown side of Che Wang's life, and revealed the current situation of Schumacher, he is still receiving treatment (foreign media reports have not yet awakened), she will do her best to take care of and protect Schumacher.
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Michael Schumacher was born in Germany on January 3, 1969.
He also has a younger brother named Ralph Schumacher, who is also a racing driver and has achieved good results, but compared with Schumacher, it is indeed far worse, after all, genius type figures, how many years to appear one.
Schumacher, on the other hand, was the talented driver who was born for racing.
What makes him awesome is that when he reaches the limit of his speed, he can still ride freely, as if he were one with the car, and he famously said:
"100% perfect, to 100%, that's my goal, I'm the kind of person, below the limit I can't stand it."
Talent may be innate, but the cultivation of the original family is the most important.
Schumacher's father, a chimney bricklayer who lived a modest life, recalls that their parents had to work hard to live a normal life.
However, although they are financially poor, the brothers' spiritual world is very rich, because their parents attach great importance to parent-child relationships, and no matter how busy they are, they will find time to play with their two sons.
Schumacher's father, who had always been fond of motorcycles and the like, was very hands-on, converting an old moped into a children's kart with discarded tires from a dump.
Four-year-old Schumacher thus owned his first kart.
Who would have thought that this boy who drove his own modified go-kart would one day become a world champion.
When Schumacher was about six or seven years old, his father took over the local go-kart club, and his mother opened a fast food restaurant near there.
It became a childhood paradise for Schumacher and his brother.
Schumacher often worked with his father to repair and improve the karting they rented, and Schumacher went into the battle to test it.
Schumacher's father recalled that when Schumacher was a child, he had already practiced driving like a world champion, he knew what he wanted from an early age, and racing was his only goal in life.
From the age of 14, Schumacher began to participate in karting competitions held in various places and won the championship.
But because his family was poor, his dream of competing in formula level almost died.
For a while, he was particularly bitter, thinking that he might be just a go-kart driver for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, Schumacher's father eventually found a sponsor for his son, and Schumacher was able to compete at Formula level.
Since 1987, Schumacher has been a professional racing driver since 1987 and has been racing.
A future world champion car king is in the process of being developed.
Because of racing, Schumacher also met the love of his life.
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In 1989, at the age of 20, Schumacher was recruited by Mercedes-Benz to the Group C team, along with his friend Frenzen.
That night, Frenzen took his 20-year-old girlfriend, Corinne, to a welcome dinner hosted by Mercedes-Benz for new drivers, and Schumacher met Corinne through the introduction of the staff.
During the banquet, Corinne took the initiative to invite Schumacher to dance, supposedly to anger her boyfriend Frenzen, who was in an awkward situation for a few days, and although Corinne's purpose was not pure, Schumacher did not care at all.
He liked the smiling girl very much and fell in love with her at first sight.
After that dance, Corinne often went to training and competitions with her boyfriend Frenzen, and she became friends with Schumacher. But because Corinne is her brother's girlfriend, Schumacher can only hide this love in her heart.
In 1990, Frenzen could not withstand the persuasion of his agent and ran to Japan to develop, breaking up with his girlfriend Corinne before leaving.
After Frenzen left, Schumacher confessed to Corinne, and the two came together.
In the documentary "Schumacher" released this time, Corinne also talked about falling in love with Schumacher, saying that she was really lucky to meet Schumacher.
She had cooked dinner for him on his birthday, and after the meal he took the initiative to wash the dishes in the kitchen:
'He's really funny, that's what I saw in him, I love him just because he's a good guy, I just feel like he's special to me, I never thought he was a great racing driver.'
It is true that when Corinne fell in love with Schumacher, Schumacher's racing career was just beginning.
The turning point in his racing career came in August 1991, when he competed in formula 1 grand prix for the first time.
It was a very fortuitous opportunity, as a racer withdrew from the race and Schumacher's agent, Willie Weber, seized the opportunity.
Most of the race was veteran drivers, all over twenty-seven or eight years old, while Schumacher had never competed in Formula 1 before, and he was only 22 years old at the time.
Under the efforts of agent Willie Webb, Schumacher represented Jordan Racing, and he only finished seventh due to the failure of the car clutch, but this did not prevent him from showing his superb skills and ability to drive the car.
After the race, Benaton team leader Flavio immediately called Willie Weber and signed Schumacher.
Shocked to learn the news, Schumacher said he didn't expect that he had just competed in his first race, and the world number four team had given him a job offer, and it all happened too quickly.
Later results proved that Flavio's vision was very good.
The following year, at the age of 23, Schumacher won the race in Belgium.
After that, Schumacher began the journey to harvest medals.
He won the championship twice for Benetton racing in 1994 and 1995.
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However, racing is a sport that is fought with life.
Victory is often accompanied by life-threatening.
In one race, Schumacher watched as rival driver Elton Senna rushed into the guardrail in front of him and smashed it.
Elton Senna was the world's number one driver at the time, the benchmark that Schumacher and every racing driver wanted to surpass, and in that race, Schumacher also regarded Elton Senna as the strongest opponent to win the championship.
However, no one expected Elton Senna to have an accident in the game.
Schumacher won the championship, but he was not happy at all.
A few weeks later, the news of Elton Senna's death came, which greatly shocked Schumacher's heart.
Schumacher once said that for a long time after that, whenever he drove, he thought of Elton Senna.
Suffering from severe insomnia, he woke up at night every day, sleeping only two or three hours, and he thought that he might one day die on one race track like Elton Senna.
Corinne has been with him since she established a relationship with Schumacher, following him to races around the world, saying she always stays on the bus or somewhere behind the scenes so he doesn't feel alone.
In August 1995, Schumacher married Corinne.
After that, Schumacher and Corinne began to show affection generously, and he did not shy away from it, often kissing his wife in public when winning the game, and confessing his wife Corinne in an interview.
In 1996, Schumacher joined Ferrari.
However, the period of racing with Ferrari did not go well, and the first time he participated in the race, Schumacher had to retire because his car broke down, which made him very anxious.
Corinne recalls that in the first few years of joining the Ferrari team, Schumacher would often meet until 10 p.m., and the couple did not go to a restaurant for a good meal, often sitting in a tent and eating pasta.
When not training, Schumacher always stayed in the garage, adjusting his car with his mechanics.
On 2 June 1996, Schumacher drove Ferrari to the Spanish Competition.
On the day of the race, the weather was very bad, the sky was raining all the time, the lane was full of water, the road was wet and slippery, which was a big taboo for the drivers, but Schumacher's performance was exceptional, and he finally won the grand prize with excellent results.
His younger brother, Ralph, said the brothers had been skating in the rain since childhood, allowing drivers to gain control and confidence in the car, merge with the car, and achieve impossible miracles.
However, no one is perfect, let alone a race like racing.
Schumacher also made mistakes in the game.
In the October 1997 race in Spain, Schumacher was out of bounds after hitting someone else's car.
But he thought that someone else had hit him, and he didn't know until after watching the video that he hit someone else, which was difficult for Schumacher, who had been pursuing 100% perfection.
In the end, he was also disqualified from the 1997 tournament.
Unable to compete, Schumacher took his wife and family to Norway for a holiday.
Corinne recalls that everyone had a lot of fun at the time, but was careful to avoid talking about the game, and later when Schumacher started training again, he always had self-doubt.
Can he still be as perfect as he wants?
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I'm really afraid of what's coming.
On July 11, 1999, when Schumacher was racing in the United Kingdom, the car suddenly broke out of control and crashed into the guardrail made of tires on the side, he was trapped in the car and could not move, his legs could not be pulled out, and he felt his heart beating weakly.
He thought to himself, maybe that's how it felt when you were going to heaven.
Luckily, he just broke his foot and was back on the field a few months later.
2000 was another turning point in Schumacher's racing career, when he won his third world title and the title Ferrari had dreamed of in 21 years.
Since joining Ferrari, Schumacher has been under the weight of winning the title, which makes him feel breathless.
This time, Schumacher felt all the pressure on his shoulders release, and he ignited his enthusiasm for racing again.
"I'm doing what I love to do, but I don't owe anyone anything anymore," he said.
Subsequently, Schumacher continued to win the world championship for the next four years, achieving five consecutive championships.
These five years became the peak of his racing career.
Neither Schumacher himself nor the world thought that the king of the car would end in such a way.
In 2013, while skiing in the French Alps, Schumacher had an accident.
His head hit the rock, his brain was severely damaged, and he fell into a coma.
His wife, Corinne, recalled in the documentary, "Shortly before the accident happened in Meribal, he told me that snow is not ideal now, and we could fly to Dubai and skydive there." ”
If they had gone to Dubai, it might have ended differently.
After the accident, Corinne has not given up Schumacher's treatment, although Schumacher was declared a vegetative person by the doctor, but Corinne still insisted on continuing treatment, at the expense of hundreds of millions of yuan (RMB) to build a medical suite at home.
In addition, she also hired a highly paid medical team of 15 people to guard Schumacher.
The weekly cost alone is more than 400,000 yuan (RMB), sometimes even more, just a lot more.
To this end, she sold some of her family property.
While caring for her husband, Corinne also has to raise their two children, both of whom are now grown up.
The son, Mick Schumacher, inherited his father's career and became a racing driver, while the daughter inherited her mother's interest and loved horse racing.
At the end of the documentary, Corinne reveals:
"Michael is here, he gives us all the strength. We're together, I live at home together, we do therapy, we do what we can to make Michael better and make sure he's comfortable, let him feel our family, our bond, whatever I can, we're going to win. ”
For the outside world to criticize Corinna for being arbitrary and strong, not letting others know about Schumacher's condition, Corinne also responded indirectly, saying that Schumacher's biggest concern is privacy, before Schumacher protected his family, now it is the turn of the family to protect him.
Seeing this paragraph really makes people cry.
How many people can exhaust their family wealth for their other half, and in the absence of hope, they still insist on guarding their lovers and waiting for miracles. Maybe miracles won't happen in this lifetime?
Bless them, love really may bring miracles.
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