FIA president Jean Todt, Schumacher’s former team principal at Ferrari,
and Ross Brawn, who guided the German to all seven of his drivers’ world
titles at Benetton and Ferrari before luring him back to the sport with Mercedes
in 2010, were among the visitors at Grenoble University Hospital Centre on
Monday.
Ferrari later released a statement underlining their concern for their former
driver and offering support to his family. “Everyone at Ferrari has been in
a state of anxiety since hearing about Michael Schumacher’s accident,” it
read. “That includes the president, Luca di Montezemolo, who through the
Scuderia team principal Stefano Domenicali is in constant contact with the
family and those close to the German champion.”
British world champions Jenson
Button and Lewis
Hamilton both tweeted their support while Eddie Jordan, who gave
Schumacher his Formula One debut in 1991, told the BBC that if anyone could
pull through it was Schumacher.
“If you were going to look for someone to take on the fight, whether it be
sporting or in life, Michael is someone you want on your team,” Jordan said.
“He’s resilient, he’s a very tough guy, so much so that people didn’t always
warm to him, but that was his persona and he brought a new level of
professionalism to Formula One, certainly in terms of fitness.”