Gerhard Berger has admitted he thought of fellow F1 legend Michael Schumacher when he lay injured in the snow late last week.<\/p>\n
Austrian Berger, a former Ferrari and McLaren driver and ex BMW and Toro Rosso F1 chief, is now recovering at home after surgery for a badly broken arm suffered when he fell at the Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental resort in Austria.<\/p>\n
Unlike the comatose Schumacher, who tripped on a rock and struck another with his head in the French alps, 54-year-old Berger fell on a forest road onto a concrete drainage pipe.<\/p>\n
“Further to the left and I would have hit my head on it,” he told the Austrian news agency APA.<\/p>\n
“Good and bad luck lie so closely together.”<\/p>\n
Berger confirmed that he had surgery on the injury to insert a plate with twelve screws in his arm.<\/p>\n
“Even a nerve was injured, so I cannot really move my wrist, but I will again.\u00a0 The bottom line is that it was painful, but I’m glad it was that and no more.<\/p>\n
“I already have some plates in my body, so it’s just one more.”<\/p>\n
Asked if he thought of Schumacher’s serious injuries when he was laying in the snow, Berger admitted: “Of course I did.<\/p>\n
“It was similar to him — I was not going fast or doing a risky move.”<\/p>\n
Berger, who recently attended the Bahrain tests, will watch this weekend’s Melbourne season opener from home.<\/p>\n
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