How Should Formula 1 React in Absence of Michael Schumacher Updates?

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Published: June 19, 2014

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It was announced at the beginning of the week that seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was no longer in a coma and had left the CHU Grenoble in France.

His family's spokeswomen, Sabine Kehm, released a statement on Monday. Per Autosport, it said:

Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore.

His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months.

The family also wishes to thank all the people who have sent Michael all the many good wishes to Michael. We are sure it helped him.

For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye.

It was later confirmed by Lausanne hospital spokesman Darcy Christen and reported by Reuters that Schumacher had been moved to the hospital there. The centre is just 20 miles from his family home on the shores of Lake Geneva.

But while the news that Schumacher's rehabilitation is going to take place at a hospital where his family and friends can more conveniently visit is good, there was no real update on his condition or prognosis.

Kehm deliberately did not make any mention of those things. We still don't know anything beyond what she said, which was very little.

Nor do we have any right to.

Once this week's frenzy has petered out, the Formula One community—the fans, teams, drivers, media and everyone else—should go back to doing what they were doing before the news of the move broke.

Quietly, respectfully waiting.



The family have made it clear that they wish to keep Schumacher's rehabilitation away from the public eye. It's possible the announcement he had been moved was only ...
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