Speaking of the car god, everyone will probably have the same image in their minds - Schumacher.
The F1 legend has left his mark on the history stage of motorsport, with seven world titles, 91 Grand Prix races, 65 pole positions and 77 fastest laps.
To this day, his record has not been broken.
Sadly, after retiring safely, the racer fell while skiing in 2013 and fell into a coma.
Fortunately, his wife was always by his side and never left, and when everyone was ready to give up, his wife still insisted on continuing the treatment with the idea that her husband would wake up.
When the doctor proposed euthanasia, Schumacher's wife chose to decisively refuse, and in the next three years, she invested 120 million pounds in sky-high treatment costs, even if Schumacher did not get better, she never regretted it.
She single-handedly broke everyone's stereotype that European and American couples flew separately when disaster came, and staged a love story for everyone who never gave up.
Today we are going to tell the story of Schumacher's legendary life, his racing cars and his love!
Legendary racer
The most expensive competitive sport in the world is not snow and ice, but racing.
The cost of pre-training for racing cars is extremely high, which also dooms most of the people who play racing cars to be either rich or expensive, and the car god Schumacher has become an outlier among them.
In 1969, in a family of ordinary workers in Germany, Schumacher was born, his father was an ordinary craftsman, and his mother owned a fast-food restaurant next to the go-kart club.
The young Schumacher often saw go-karts speeding by on the track next to him in his mother's shop, and he wanted to try it, but his family conditions did not allow it, and the karting at that time was quite expensive, which the Schumacher family could not afford.
At the age of four, Schumacher received one of his favorite gifts, a small go-kart.
When the father took them home, he noticed that his son liked the go-kart next door, but the family did not have enough money to buy a real go-kart, so the father had to save money and buy a mini go-kart.
The go-kart was small but big enough for a four-year-old to drive, and it was Schumacher's first go-kart, and he liked the feeling.
Schumacher, who has been exposed to mini go-karts, is even more curious, what would it be like to drive a real go-kart?
The father also knows what his son has in mind, that the mini kart has a different engine compared to the real go-kart.
To change this, he put the engine on a discarded electric motorcycle on a mini go-kart, and Schumacher liked it, so he tried it and was surprised to find that the speed of the kart increased.
Happy that he performed the drift he had just learned in front of his father, and it was surprising that a child who was not yet five years old performed the drift so perfectly.
Schumacher's father was also shocked by Schumacher's talent for driving, so he took his savings and took his son to a go-kart club to try his hand at a real go-kart.
There is still a difference between a real go-kart and a mini go-kart, but after some manipulation by Schumacher, the kart actually moved.
The father encouraged his son to run lap after lap on the track, and looking at his son's skillful operation and prediction of the road, he was sure that his son was absolutely talented in driving.
In order to help his son, Schumacher's father came to the office of the head of the club, who he wanted to invest in his son, and when he explained his son's talent, the head of the charge could not help but be amazed.
Later, with the help of the director, Schumacher became the youngest member of the club, and the director reached an agreement with Schumacher's father that the director would pay half of the cost of Schumacher's training, and the remaining half would be borne by Schumacher's father.
In order to support his hobby, his father chose to work two jobs at the same time, but even so, the cost of a high-cost training program such as racing still stretched the family's livelihood.
Effort always pays off, and Schumacher lived up to expectations, taking part in his first karting race at the age of six, where he won the championship.
Later, on the battlefield of the children's group, he won many battles and appeared in the public eye.
At the age of ten, mechanic Gerhard Nock built a go-kart for Schumacher, which was Schumacher's first exposure to high-spec racing-level karting.
This go-kart became a stepping stone for him to enter the official racing field, and at the age of 14, he was invited to participate in the junior karting competition and won the championship.
Later, he won two consecutive junior karting championships and became a hot karting star at the time.
The Mercedes-Benz industry took notice of him, and with their sponsorship, Schumacher took part in Formula 3 racing and began his legendary career.
True love meets in the arena
In this arena, Schumacher not only reaped honors, but also reaped his own love.
At the age of 21, he fell in love with his wife Corinna at first sight at a celebration party.
Soon after, the new car king launched a fierce pursuit of Corinna, and the frustrated and lovelorn Corinna fell in love again, and the two fell in love.
Schumacher, who was proud of his love, was even more proud in the field, and Schumacher, who entered his prime, won seven championships and 91 sub-championships in one fell swoop, becoming a veritable king of cars in the hearts of all fans.
In 2012, Schumacher voluntarily ended his career and announced his official retirement, he no longer belonged to racing and racing, he wanted to devote more of his time to his family.
Just when everyone thought that this billion-dollar car king, who was rich and free, was about to live a wonderful retirement life, on December 29, 2013, the bad news came.
While skiing in the Alps, Schumacher accidentally fell and hit his head on a rock, leaving him unconscious.
After the rescue, Schumacher barely managed to pick up a life, but he lost other functions of a normal person, and was even inferior to a vegetative person.
The doctor in charge of the care recommended that Corinna be euthanized and sent him away, because the chances of Schumacher waking up were slim, and it would be a great pain for him to lie here for a long time.
But Corinna refused without hesitation, knowing that her husband's medical expenses were a bottomless pit that could consume all their existing possessions, but she still refused to give up.
She said that when she was most frustrated, her husband accompanied her, and now when her husband is most frustrated, she will not hesitate to accompany her husband all the time.
When Schumacher first met Corinna, Corinna was also the girlfriend of his teammates, and his friend's wife could not be bullied, so he could only bury this love in his heart.
But what he didn't know was that the relationship between Corinna and her boyfriend had already been shattered at that time, and Corinna fell into deep self-doubt because of her boyfriend's various behaviors.
Soon after, her boyfriend said goodbye and went to the ocean, leaving her alone.
Schumacher, who appeared beside her at that time, was like a light that illuminated her whole life.
Later, in an interview with the media, Corinna mentioned that relationship, she believes that everyone's choice is free, he chose to go far away and left me, that is destined to meet someone better than him.
Corinna, who was once pulled out of the trough by her husband, is unwilling to give up her husband who is in the trough, she is willing to sacrifice everything in exchange for his lover, even if there is little hope of his lover awakening now, she is not willing to give up easily.
Corinna is willing to bear all the consequences, if her husband never wakes up again, then she will always accompany her husband in front of the hospital bed, if her husband wakes up and has other physical problems, then she is the biggest support for her husband for the rest of his life.
According to incomplete statistics, from the end of 2013 to the end of 2016, in three years, Schumacher's treatment cost was as high as 120 million yuan, and the weekly cost was about 970,000 yuan.
The high cost of treatment left Corinna in a financial crisis, and she had to sell her assets to continue raising funds.
Another village
In 2017, a charity auction attracted attention because it included Schumacher's favorite race car during his lifetime.
This Ferrari has a unique shape, the engine and engine are first-class, and the car was sold by Schumacher's wife, Corinna.
In order to pay for expensive medical bills, Corinna had to sell her husband's favorite race car.
Soon after, she sold her family's small jet and a luxury villa in Geneva, Switzerland.
With the sale of her husband's assets, the outside world has more and more doubts about her, and slogans such as "Disaster is coming", "Fake couple" and "Benefit women" linger around her.
Soon after, Corinna, who has always been low-key, chose to hold a press conference, but this press conference was not to clarify everyone's doubts about herself, but to reprimand the unscrupulous media's candid filming affected her husband's rest.
"I hope that everyone has their own dignity and I hope that you will respect me, respect my husband, you are filming my life and my husband without permission under the guise of being a car fan, you have affected us, I hope you will not continue. ”
In the whole paragraph, there was not a word to defend herself, I only hope that the media will not disturb her husband again, Corinna does not care how much dirty water is poured on her by the outside world, only cares about her husband's future recuperation.
From that day on, Corinna disappeared from public view, and everyone chose to respect the family and not disturb Schumacher's private recuperation time.
Soon after, Corinna brought in a medical rehabilitation team of 15 medical experts for her husband.
She took her husband home and treated him by a medical rehabilitation team to ensure a quieter environment to recuperate.
In order to support this expensive medical team, Corinna sold a property again, and the exchange fee was only enough to last for half a year, and after half a year, Corinna sold the joint assets of the husband and wife again.
Her friend had advised her to give up, after all, according to the current situation, the future is very likely to be the end of both people and money, and a large amount of treatment costs have been invested in the early stage, and Schumacher still has no image of awakening, which also means that the possibility of his future awakening is even more remote.
But Corinna has always been unwilling to give up, even if they lose everything in the end, she is not willing to give up halfway, even if there is little hope, it still means that there is a glimmer of hope.
Since then, Schumacher's treatment has not been revealed to the outside world until 2019, when a French nurse revealed that Schumacher had woken up.
She claims that she has been in charge of Schumacher's care, and her words are absolutely true.
As soon as the news was released, it attracted cheers from racing enthusiasts around the world, and everyone was celebrating the awakening of the king of cars.
But soon after, attentive netizens questioned the authenticity of the news, because Corinna never showed up to publicly share Schumacher's recent situation, so she would not allow others to share her husband's current situation at will.
Just when everyone was in grief again, Corinna posted a response at the Schumacher Fan Club, saying: "Big things always start one step at a time.
The news sparked suspicion that it was Corinna's suggestion that Schumacher had woken up and was currently recovering.
What's even more exciting is that the 23-year-old Mick Schumacher has announced that his son has officially become a professional racing driver.
He said in the interview: When he shared with his mother that he wanted to become a racing driver, his mother was worried, but she did not stop me, she encouraged me to go on, and since I chose, I should not give up easily.
In addition, he also shared with the media the reason why he chose racing, on the one hand, because of the admiration for his father since childhood, and on the other hand, because of the yearning for the racing project.
But it is a pity that Mick Schumacher has not been able to achieve as much brilliance as his father, perhaps because his father's light is so dazzling that the outside world is accustomed to comparing him with his father Schumacher.
Under the pressure of a sea of skepticism from the outside world, his competitive level continued to decline, and the F1 Mercedes team had to announce that Mick Schumacher will be the team's substitute driver for the 2023 season in order to maintain the high level of the entire team.
As soon as this news was released, the public was in an uproar, and everyone said: The king of cars is the king of cars after all, and such a thing as racing talent really does not inherit through genes.
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To this day, we still don't know what happened to Schumacher, but on December 29, 2023, the 10th anniversary of Schumacher's skiing accident, his former agent publicly admitted for the first time that he did not visit Schumacher while he was in the hospital.
In addition, he also revealed to the media: It has been ten years since the accident, and within ten years, there has been no positive news, and there is no possibility for me to see him again.
As soon as the remarks were released, they once again sparked public discussion.
Many believe that he meant something because he had not visited Schumacher during his hospital stay, which angered Corinna, who no longer allowed him to appear.
Others believe that he means that Schumacher is in a critical condition, has been in a coma from the beginning to the end, and may never wake up again.
Regardless of the situation, everyone said that they would not bother Corinna, and everyone chose to respect them and accept all the results.