MICHAEL SCHUMACHER’S son Mick has candidly opened up on life after his dad’s devastating ski accident in a rare interview.

Schumacher’s family have been fiercely private when it comes to Michael’s health since he sustained life-changing injuries in the French Alps in 2013.
His long-term wife Corinna has even created a so-called inner circle made up of a selective group of Schumacher’s family and closest friends.
Mick, who was only 14 at the time of his dad’s accident, pursued his dream of reaching F1 without the icon’s guidance.
He raced with Haas for two seasons before becoming a reserve driver for Mercedes in 2023, the team his dad came out of retirement to race for between 2010 and 2012.
In a new book “Inside Mercedes F1”, author Matt Whyman, who had unrestricted access to the team, includes a conversation with Mick about his father’s influence.
The 25-year-old told Whyman: “I was a crazy kid – everything my dad did, I did.
“He was really supportive and a lot of fun, but could also be challenging.
“One time in a karting race I braked very late going into a corner and gained a lot of time. When I told him about it, he said, ‘Yes, but you should have braked like that in every corner!’.
“Whenever he felt like I was not taking it seriously, he would say, ‘Mick, would you rather go and play football with your friends? If so, we do not need to do all of this’.
“I insisted that I wanted to race and he said, ‘Okay, then let’s do it properly’. So we started doing more European karting and I was getting better.”
Mick later explained that he learned “a lot of technical points” from his dad that he “still uses today”.
He added: “I started racing in the Formula classes the year after the accident and from that point onwards, I had to find my own feet.
“I started karting aged three. I was six when I first went scuba diving. Aged 10 I was skydiving.
“My dad was always very open to me trying out whatever I wanted to do and racing is all I wanted to do, because I enjoyed it the most.”
Schumacher fell metres away from a popular ski slope that resulted in critical head injuries when his skis struck a rock hidden beneath the snow.
The F1 legend fractured his skull on another rock and was left with a brain injury. — Sun.