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MICHAEL Schumacher is receiving the best medical treatment in human history, ex-Mercedes boss Nick Fry has said.
The F1 legend’s condition has been kept under lock and key over the last decade, leaving fans and motorsport enthusiasts wondering about his health.
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GettyFry said he wouldn’t be surprised if Schuey does sit at dinner table after reports were shared by Michael’s retired pal, Johnny Herbert.
He backed his certainty by saying no human in history has had better medical treatment like the stricken driver.
“I haven’t heard anything about Michael Schumacher‘s condition, so I’m unable to confirm or deny any of the recent reports about him,” Fry told Online Betting Guide.
“Michael has the best medical team in the world, and I’m 100% sure that no human being in history has had the treatment Michael has had for his specific injury. The family has the resources.
He continued: “I hope and pray that they’re making progress with him. If the reports about him at the dinner table or in a car are true, then it wouldn’t surprise me at all because I’d imagine that’s the type of thing you’d do to get the brain going again.
“The only thing I hope for is for Michael’s quality of life to be good.
“My mother has dementia, so I know what it’s like when someone is alive but not conscious of the world around them.”
Fry added that if Schumacher makes progress, he will be a role model for people with brain injuries.
“Humans are remarkable, and it’s not impossible to hope for things to get back to as close to normal,” he said.
“I’m sure we’ll hear at some stage and if the medical team have learned something about how to treat people with these sorts of injuries then that will be Michael’s greatest contribution.”
Despite having a rocky start with Schumacher at Mercedes, the Brit boss said everything changed once they got to know one another.
“I’d say my experience of working with Michael Schumacher was complicated,” he said.
“Being a good Brit, I’d never have Michael high on my list of most-loved people as he was the dastardly German who did rotten things to good, honest Brits and others!
Fry then admitted: “I wasn’t an immediate fan of Schumacher but I had massive respect for what he had accomplished. I hate to say it, but when you meet Michael, you realise how special he is very quickly.
“The difference was the level of teamwork. Michael really appreciated that everybody in the team needed to contribute if he was going to be successful.”
December 29 marked a full decade since Michael fell and struck a rock so hard it split his ski helmet in two – leaving him in a coma for 250 days.
Schuey has since been living alongside his wife Corinna at their Lake Geneva home under the care of a team of 15 doctors.
Only a few people have been lucky enough to visit the seven-time world champion since his fateful ski accident in Meribel, France.
That includes Schuey’s ex sister-in-law, who was kicked out of I’m A Celebrity amid fears she would reveal secrets about the F1 legend’s health.
Cora Schumacher, 47, was married to Michael’s brother Ralf for almost 15 years and was dumped from the German spin-off reality show after only three days in the jungle.
TV bosses were concerned that the OnlyFans model was too chatty and might reveal the guarded secrets about the stricken driver during a live show, German media reported.
Any indiscretion would violate an implicit ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ between broadcaster RTL and the racing driver’s family not to pry into the driving champion’s personal life, BILD reports.
Meanwhile, Schumacher’s ex-Ferrari rival Rubens Barrichello revealed the time he was denied a visit to the F1 legend after his fateful accident.
Speaking to Flow Podcast in his native Brazil, Barrichello said he tried visiting his former teammate after his accident, but was declined after getting a call from Schuey’s team.
“With Schumacher, I called once and said I wanted to visit him,” he revealed.
“They told me that unfortunately I wouldn’t be helping and that I might be sad.
“So I understood that at that moment it was not the time to enter [his life].
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