Big Michael Schumacher health update as F1 icon ‘not bedridden’ and still watches races | F1 | Sport

Michael Schumacher is not restricted to his bed but cannot walk and relies on nurses moving him around his house in a wheelchair, according to new reports. There have been very few details released about the health of the Formula One icon since his life-changing skiing accident 12 years ago. Schumacher suffered a traumatic brain injury and was airlifted to a hospital where he spent six months in a medically induced coma just over 12 years ago. His wife Corinna and the family have intentionally limited the information released about the seven-time F1 world champion.

Schumacher has not been seen publicly for over a decade and is currently being cared for at a huge mansion in Las Brisas, Majorca said to be worth £30million. But Mail Sport have offered a new update and claim that he is not bedridden and is able to move around his house, though only in a wheelchair with the assistance of a team of doctors, nurses and therapists. The 57-year-old receives round-the-clock medical care. Such treatment is said to cost the Schumacher family tens of thousands of pounds per week.

Very few visitors are allowed into Schumacher’s house, whether he is at his Majorca property or his main residence in Gland, Switzerland. But one person allowed in is former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt. And it is claimed Todt and Schumacher watch Grands Prix together.

Todt revealed a year ago that he still sees his former Ferrari colleague “regularly”. He said: “The family has decided not to answer the question [about Schumacher’s health], a choice that I respect. I see him regularly and with affection, him and his family. Our bond goes beyond the past work. It is part of my life which today is very far from Formula One.”

But the report adds that it is unclear whether or not Schumacher, despite being conscious, understands what is going on around him. One anonymous source said: “You can’t be sure whether he understands everything because he cannot tell anyone. The feeling is that he understands some of the things going on around him, but probably not all of them.”

There were reports from Germany that Schumacher attended his daughter Gina’s wedding when she married Iain Bethke in 2024. But such claims appear to be misplaced and the German was not actually present.

Former F1 mechanic Richard Hopkins, who regularly had coffee with Schumacher in the paddock, told Express Sport earlier this month: “The Keep Fighting Michael campaign is still alive. Obviously, as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer people, and it sort of dilutes a little bit. But everybody keeps thinking about him. You can’t not think about Michael and his situation.

“We can only imagine that not a lot is being said because there’s maybe not a lot to say. We’re not seeing him because maybe the family don’t want him to be seen in the condition he’s in. That obviously generates your own ideas and images, and I think we all probably have a similar idea of the state that he’s in.

“We’re probably not too far off the mark in our assumptions of where he’s at right now. I haven’t really spoken to anybody closer to that inner circle about what I think. But I think we all think the same. 

“Of course it’s a little bit frustrating that we’re kept in the dark. But I don’t think we’re that in the dark. I think our own assumptions are fairly accurate about where he’s at right now.”