Michael Schumacher health update ten years on from ski tragedy and it's 'big shock'

Speaking to Grosvenor Sport, Herbert said Corinna Schumacher says family carrying on the way Michael would have wanted and revealed how Schumacher’s ski crash horror has left huge void 10 years on.

Ahead of the Michael Schumacher ski tragedy anniversary, Johnny Herbert has issued an update on the Formula One star. Speaking to Grosvenor Sport, Herbert said Corinna Schumacher says family carrying on the way Michael would have wanted and revealed how Schumacher’s ski crash horror has left huge void 10 years on.

He said: "I knew Corinna a little bit because she used to be with Heinz Harald Frentzen before she met Michael. She has said they are trying to carry on as a family as Michael would have wanted. They are getting on with their lives but private does mean private. Corinna is a lovely lady. She has been around the paddock a long, long time.

"My wife used to sit around with her and have long chats during our time together in 1995. She is a very family oriented woman who was obviously very strong even at that time, dealing with all the pressures of being the wife of Michael Schumacher then bringing up the kids as well was always a big deal.

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"Then the awful accident, then Mick coming into karting which I think Gerhard helped him with in the early days. Corinna was always there for Mick, as he moved through F3, F2 then into F1. She wasn’t at every race but she was always a huge support for him." He went on: "Mick has said he could always talk to Michael about racing before the accident.

"And that is one of the saddest things for any sportsman and you get that opportunity, and you have a father who has been so successful, it would have been a very important part of his development at that time. But Mick never had that unfortunately. He just had that relationship up until the skiing accident. All the pressures were on Mick’s shoulders just because of the name that he had.

"Michael would have loved the opportunity to work with his son to try and put all his experiences into enabling Mock to be a very different character to what we have seen. Because he was alone in his F1 career. Michael would have been a big help and that father son relationship would have been a very beneficial thing for Mick. In other ways it would have been a wonderful experience for Michael to have that deep relationship with his son. Sadly, that was something we didn’t see.

"There’s all the positives of the past knowing what he achieved in F1 and now we just have memories. It would be lovely just to have Michael back now." He said: "There has been a huge void left since Schumacher’s crash. When the accident happened it was a big shock for everybody. He had been such a fixture around the paddock for so long, achieving all those wins and championships.

"He was massively respected by the flock of current drivers at the time, but actually probably by nearly all the drivers today. If you ask them who was the driver they looked up to and watched when you were growing up, they would say Michael. Michael was the one who drove them to achieve their dream of getting into Formula 1.

"He was a very important part of Formula 1 back then. Yes people might have thought it was a boring period for the sport with his domination, especially when he was at Ferrari. That, though, just showed the true grit and domination Michael had at that time. A lot of drivers in modern times still use the experience of watching him on the track to motivate them. Max is the obvious example. He has a very similar mentality because his Dad was a teammate back in 1994. I think even Jos has tried to instill a lot of what Michael was about as a driver and as a person and in the way he contributes to his team and how he worked within a team structure to get the best for himself.

"He is the only one who has used a lot of Michael’s ways in his own life."