MOTORSPORT: Michael Schumacher home at last
Michael The most successful driver in F1 history finally has been released from hospital after skiing accidentSeven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has been released from hospital and returned home, almost 8½ months after the skiing accident in which he suffered severe head injuries.
A statement from Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm said that, "while progress has been made in the past weeks and months", the 45-year-old German still faced "a long and difficult road ahead".
The winner of a record 91 grands prix, who last raced in 2012, was in a coma for months after the skiing accident in the French Alps late last year.
He was transferred in June from a hospital at Grenoble in France to another at Lausanne in Switzerland, closer to his home and where he has been treated in what has been described as a "garden of the senses".
Schumacher's wife Corinna has had the family home at Gland, beside Lake Geneva, adapted to assist his rehabilitation.
The couple have two teenage children – a boy and a girl. Son Mick has been achieving success in karting recently, racing under his mother's maiden name Betsch.
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