Media Friend Calls 7-Time F1 Champion Michael Schumacher Condition a 'Case Without Hope'

Ever since he suffered devastating head injuries in a skiing accident while on vacation nearly 10 years ago (December 29, 2013), seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher’s condition has been guarded by his family and kept from the outside world.

While so little official information on Schumacher’s condition has come out of the family compound in Lausanne, Switzerland over the last near-decade, countless rumors and utter untruths have emerged about the F1 great—almost all being false.

Schumacher had few close friends in the always-pressing F1 media, with one notable exception being Roger Benoit, who has covered F1 for an incredible 54 years—since 1969—for the Switzerland-based German language daily newspaper Blick.

In a recent interview with his own publication, Benoit shared a few stories about his old pal, who when he wasn’t behind the wheel, regularly used to smoke cigars and play backgammon with his media friend.

When asked if he knows how Schumacher is today, Benoit told Blick, “There is only one answer to this question and that is what son Mick (formerly a Haas F1 driver and now a reserve pilot for Mercedes) gave in one of his rare interviews in 2022: ‘I would give anything to talk to Dad.’ This sentence says everything about how his father has been doing for over 3,500 days.”

Then, Benoit said with such a sorrowful lament, “A case without hope.”

Michael Schumacher’s wife, Corinna, recently said in the Netflix documentary, Schumacher, “Everybody misses Michael, but Michael is here. Different, but he’s here and that gives us strength, I find.”

Corinna Schumacher continued, “We try to carry on as a family as Michael liked it and still does. And we are getting on with our lives.”