{"id":20930,"date":"2014-02-06T07:17:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20930"},"modified":"2014-02-06T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:17:41","slug":"todt-vows-to-be-there-for-friend-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-vows-to-be-there-for-friend-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt vows to ‘be there’ for friend Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIA president Jean Todt remains an almost ever-present figure in Grenoble.<\/p>\n

\"Jean-Todt-2\"It is there, almost 600 kilometres from Todt’s Paris office, that the great Michael Schumacher – one of the former Ferrari boss’ closest friends – lies grievously injured after a late December skiing fall.<\/p>\n

Ever since Schumacher’s coma began just after Christmas, the diminutive 67-year-old Todt has fought through the crowds of reporters in order to be with the German.<\/p>\n

He is one of very few Schumacher friends that has been welcomed to Grenoble by the sorrowful family.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the mutual admiration is obvious on the wall of Todt’s office, where only one photo is present — featuring his wife Michelle Yeoh, his son Nicolas, and seven time world champion Schumacher.<\/p>\n

Now more than a week ago, doctors began to try to wake the 45-year-old from his long coma.<\/p>\n

“Michael and his family are very close friends of mine,” Todt told the German newspaper Die Welt.<\/p>\n

“He is an important part of my life.\u00a0 And now he is seriously injured.”<\/p>\n

Frenchman Todt said he has tried to give the Schumacher family “every conceivable type of assistance” during these most trying of weeks.<\/p>\n

“Often that is just to be there for them,” he explained.<\/p>\n

Regularly, Todt has made the almost 600 kilometre journey to Grenoble, just to be with his unconscious friend and his family.<\/p>\n

“I think he would do it for me, if I had an accident like that,” he said.\u00a0 “I am sure Michael would be here for me.”<\/p>\n

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FIA president Jean Todt remains an almost ever-present figure in Grenoble. It is there, almost 600 kilometres from Todt’s Paris office, that the great Michael Schumacher – one of the former Ferrari boss’ closest friends – lies grievously injured after a late December skiing fall. Ever since Schumacher’s coma began just after Christmas, the diminutive …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5300,5340,284,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}