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Cormac O'Shea

'Beautiful' unseen moment between Michael Schumacher's son and the legend's biggest rival after Netflix doc

Michael Schumacher's son and one of his dad's fiercest rivals shared a "beautiful" moment off camera at the weekend, just weeks after his Netflix documentary release.

Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher was one of the greatest rivalries the sport has ever seen.

Speaking to Motorsport Magazine earlier this year, Mr Hill said: "My toughest rival? It has to be Michael Schumacher. At the start of 1994 he hadn’t won a championship, but he’d already been putting the pressure on Ayrton Senna, and then, after Imola, the pressure was turned on me, the full weight of his potency."

But in the recent Netflix documentary, Hill spoke about Schumacher candidly, labelling him a family man and praising him off-track.

And it appears Michael's son Mick, now a F1 driver, appreciated the comments as Damon and he shared a lovely moment at the Russian Grand Prix over the weekend.

Damon was there on media duty while Mick had just had to retire from the race due to a fault in his Haas car.

Speaking on the F1 Nation podcast, host Pinks said: "There was a lovely moment in the paddock yesterday, Mick Schumacher had gone out of the race....he walked passed you(Damon Hill), he was pretty downbeat, but he saw you and his face lit up and he gave you a big beaming smile.

"And I thought it was a lovely little moment, he must have been immensely proud that you spoke so beautifully on that documentary that was such a lovely tribute to his father."

Michael was of course involved in a horrific skiing accident and very little is known about his life since then.

According to detailed reports back in 2013, Michael was out on the slopes with his son Mick, who now races for Haas in Formula One, when he slid off path, fell, and hit his head on a rock - leading to a traumatic brain injury.

After undergoing two surgeries, he was placed in a medically induced coma for six months to help reduce the swelling of his brain.

(XPB Images/Press Association Images)

He was then moved to another hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland when he was brought out of his coma in 2014 and was eventually allowed to return to his Lake Geneva home.

The F1 legend has yet to be seen by the public, and so this latest project has sparked new interest in his condition, with many begging for more information online.

It was spoken about vaguely throughout the two-hour special and was it revealed that the 52-year-old remains at home with his family, where he continues to receive treatment for the injuries he sustained in the French Alps.

His wife, Corinna confirmed: “We are trying to carry on as a family, the way Michael liked it and still does.

"We live together at home. We do therapy. We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he’s comfortable."

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