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Michael Schumacher's former boss at Mercedes has insisted the seven-time world champion is receiving the world's best medical care.
Schumacher became a legend after winning the title with Benetton and Ferrari. But the German star was seriously injured in a skiing accident in 2013, which left him in a coma for more than six months.
The former Ferrari star has not been seen in public since his accident, with his family keeping information on his condition out of the spotlight. While updates have been few and far between, Schumacher's former Mercedes boss Nick Fry is positive about the car he is receiving.
Fry was CEO at the Silver Arrows for the final three years of the German's driving career. And he believes that if the medics who have treated him have been able to learn about brain injuries, then Schumacher will have made a lasting contribution.
“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. Michael has the best medical team in the world," Fry told OLBG.
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"I'm 100 percent sure that no human being in history has had the treatment Michael has had for his specific injury. The family has the resources. 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.
Nick Fry was Schumacher's boss at Mercedes in his final years as a driver (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)"My mother has dementia, so I know what it's like when someone is alive but not conscious of the world around them. If there is progress, then Michael will be a great role model for people with severe brain injuries.
"Humans are remarkable, and it's not impossible to hope for things to get back to as close to normal. 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.”
The reports that Fry cites of Schumacher sitting at the dinner table come from the German's former team-mate Johnny Herbert. Herbert admitted though that Schumacher is no longer the same man he once was.
"I hear bits only second hand. I hear, from those within F1, he does sit at the table for dinner but don’t know if that is true. I can only read between the lines. We haven’t heard much from the family and understandably so," he told Betting Sites.
"That has carried on from his racing days. I don’t feel things have moved on in a way that many of us who knew him and many of his fans around the world want to see. They’d love to know, we’d all love to know that things are moving on in a positive way.
"In my opinion, and I must stress this, because we haven’t heard anything from the family, it shows that unfortunately he is probably in the similar situation as he was straight after the accident. It doesn’t seem they have moved much, if at all."