Heinz harald frentzen michael schumacher biography book

While he barely flinched at hurtling towards hairpin bends at break-neck speed, word is that seven-times World Formula One Champion Michael Schumacher was so overwhelmed at the birth of his first child, daughter Gina Maria, he thought he would faint. Michael, who retired in , is regarded as one of the most talented drivers of all time.

Rival Jacques Villeneuve summed up Michael's dominance on the track after losing to him at the Spanish Grand Prix in "He has set an amazing standard which we all have to try to follow. I cannot imagine a harder challenge. The sport was aghast in December when he fell while skiing in the French Alps and hit his head on a rock.

The champion was put in a medically induced coma to allow his body to recover.

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Michael had a reputation as a consistently ruthless and courageous driver, who would stop at nothing to win. The sportsman has always been fuelled by burning ambition. It has always been so," he once admitted. Born in in a village near Cologne, Germany, the young prodigy grew up racing. Aged just four he was notching up circuits at the go-kart track near his family home, and by the time he was 18 he was European Champion.

But despite his early introduction to the sport, he wasn't forced into it by his parents.