{"id":308928,"date":"2025-11-26T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308928\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:53:12","slug":"michael-schumacher-update-old-friends-prediction-jean-todt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308928\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher update old friends prediction Jean Todt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Hopkins – a friend of Michael Schumacher<\/a> and the former head of operations for Red Bull – believes that the F1 icon will never make a return to public life.<\/p>\n

It has been 12 years since Schumacher’s tragic life-altering accident, with updates on the motorsport legend’s health kept close to the chest by his family.<\/p>\n

In a fresh interview with SportBible, Hopkins claimed he wasn’t aware of exactly how his friend was tracking, but conceded he was unlikely to be seen in the public eye again.<\/p>\n

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“I haven’t heard anything recently,” Hopkins said.<\/p>\n

“I understand he has a Finnish doctor, a personal doctor.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Schumacher lives a life of privacy, helped by his closest friends. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we’ll see Michael again. I’m slightly uncomfortable talking about his condition because of how secretive, for the right reasons, the family wants to keep it.<\/p>\n

“So I can make a remark, have an opinion, but I’m not in that inner circle. I’m not Jean Todt, I’m not Ross Brawn, I’m not Gerhard Berger, who visit Michael.<\/p>\n

“I’m a long way from that.”<\/p>\n

Schumacher won seven Formula 1<\/a> world championships and was put in a medically-induced coma after almost dying in a skiing accident in 2013.<\/p>\n

Health updates are virtually non-existent, but it’s believed the former racer is incapacitated and requires intense care from a team of medics.<\/p>\n

Hopkins added that the commitment to privacy extends to all visitors and friends, a level of respect to keep Schumacher’s state in secrecy for the family’s comfort.<\/p>\n

“I think even if you were Ross Brawn’s best friend, and you asked how well Michael was, and even if you plied Ross with a lot of good red wine, I don’t think he would open up and share,” Hopkins added.<\/p>\n

“I think there is that respect with anybody who goes to visit Michael not to share anything. That’s the way the family wants it to be.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s fair and respectful towards the family. Even if I did know, the family would be disappointed if I shared anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn celebrate winning the 2002 Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo.\u00a0Bongarts\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I spoke to someone who is very, very close to him and they just explained we’re not going to hear any more from him.<\/p>\n

“He’s in a comfortable position as far as he can be with his state of health.”<\/p>\n

Mick Schumacher<\/a>, the son of the sporting icon, has changed motorsport codes from F1 to the American series IndyCar for the 2026 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He’ll race full time with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Hopkins – a friend of Michael Schumacher and the former head of operations for Red Bull –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-308928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}