Michael Schumacher photo gallery

Schumacher winning several F1 trophies on (L-R) August 30, 1992, March 24, 1994, July 02,1995, September 24, 2000, August 19, 2001, April 14, 2002, May 18, 2003, March 07, 2004 and October 01, 2006. (Reuters)

Schumacher holding his trophy after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix. (Reuters)

Schumacher celebrates on the podium after winning the Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang F1 Circuit. (Reuters)

Schumacher celebrates on the podium of the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack after winning the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix. (Imago)

Schumacher celebrates, flanked by Ferrari technicians in the pits of the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack after the Belgium Grand Prix in Belgium. (Reuters)

Schumacher (R) and Ferrari team members celebrate in the pits of the Hungaroring racetrack after the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary. (AFP)

Schumacher, centre and team manager Jean Todt, front left pose with members of the Ferrari team at the Spanish Grand Prix at the Montmelo track just outside Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. (Getty)

Schumacher and Mercedes GP is congratulated by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone (R) as he celebrates the 20th anniversary of his first race before the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit of Spa Francorchamps in 2001. (Getty)

Schumacher (C) drives a kart during the 50th birthday of the Kart Club Kerpen in 2011 in Kerpen, Germany. (Getty)

Mercedes team drivers Germans Michael Schumacher (R), Nico Rosberg (L) and team principal Ross Brawn pose after unveiling the W03 2012 car during day one of Formula One winter testing at Catalunya's racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona. (AFP)

Sebastian Vettel (R) and Schumacher drink Champagne after winning the Nations Cup on the first day of the Race of champions event at the Esprit Arena in 2011 in Duesseldorf. (AFP)

Schumacher wearing a specially designed gold drivers helmet as he commemorates the 20th anniversary of his first F1 race during practice for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit of Spa Francorchamps in 2011. (Getty)

Schumacher blows a kiss in the parc ferme to say goodbye while at Mercedes. (Reuters)

Schumacher poses with the Mercedes team in 2012 in the pits of the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Michael Schumacher will retire from the F-1 after the Brazilian GP. (Getty)

Schumacher uses a scooter in the pits at the Valencia Street Circuit in 2012 in Valencia during the European Formula One Grand Prix. (Getty)

Schumacher, Germany's football team's head coach Joachim Loew, Mercedes Sports director Norbert Haug and German F1 driver Nico Rosberg pose during a visit at the Euro 2012 training camp of the German national football team in Nice. (AFP)

Schumacher poses as he arrives for the Audemars Piguet dinner at the Kraftwerk in Berlin in 2012 where he was lauded as the "driver of the century" after the seven-time Formula One champion announced the end of his stellar, although often controversial career. (Getty)

Jean-Francois Payen (C), head anaesthetician at the CHU hospital, neurosurgeon Stephan Chabardes (L) and Professor Gerard Saillant, President of the Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders (ICM), attend a news conference at the CHU Nord hospital emergency unit in Grenoble, French Alps, where Schumacher is hospitalized after a ski accident. (Reuters)