Fright for the 16-year-old son of Ralf Schumacher, involved in a bad accident in Hockenheim: a broken vertebra and a blow to the knee after a terrible carom. The father: “He will have to stay 6 weeks”
Lorenzo Pastuglia
13 October
– Milan
At the F3 championship as a starter in 2021 with the Italian Trident, David Schumacher, son of Ralf and grandson of the great Michael, opted to race in the DTM this season, but living a day of fear. In the last round of Hockenheim, last Saturday, while he was battling for seventh place in race-1 in his Mercedes number 27 of the Winward team, he touched the Porsche of Thomas Preining: the two crashed at high speed against the barriers and the worst went to the 20 year old from Salzburg. David Schumacher, after the exams, suffered a fracture to the lumbar vertebra and some injuries to a knee.
the apprehension of dad ralf
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Although the fracture will not require any surgery, Michael Schumacher’s nephew will now have to observe a six-week layoff and be forced to wear a corset. Of course, he was unable to participate in the final championship event: Sunday’s race-2, again at the Hockenheimring. “When David came home, he was still complaining of back pain – says father Ralf to the German news agency Dpa -. We therefore decided to go to a hospital in Salzburg, to do an MRI. It was discovered the vertebrae. lumbar spine, and the doctors told him to stay still for six weeks ”.
the accusations of the mother
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After the crash on Saturday, Preining, who was also unable to run the race on Sunday, blamed Schumacher, an accusation rejected by David’s mother, Cora Brinkmann, who replied with a post on social media: “David is going well, and that’s the most important thing. But I have to say that I don’t think it’s absolutely right for Thomas Preining to make negative comments about our son every time, without any self-reflection. ”
other cars involved
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The accident, which came on the eighth lap of the race after the Safety Car was released, involved other drivers, starting with Riccardo Feller and Dennis Olsen: the bang was so strong that the engine of the latter’s Porsche was detached from the chassis, it caught fire and was hit by Nick Cassidy’s Ferrari. In his debut year in the German series, Schumacher jr never went beyond the 11th place obtained in race-1 at Spa. All this after the starting season in 2021 with the Trident in F3, taking first place in the Sprint Race 2 in Austria. Category that, in addition to the Dtm, the 20-year-old was able to savor again this year, competing with the Charouz in the double appointments of Imola and Zandvoort.
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