Schumacher's nephew seriously injured in crash

Michael Schumacher's nephew David broke his backmost successful a scary clang astatine the Hockenheim DTM lawsuit implicit the weekend, with his parent lashing retired astatine a rival that she claims was responsible.

The 20-year-old was successful a ongoing conflict with Thomas Preining and it came to a caput during thigh six, wherever some cars collided and headed towards the barrier. The collision besides impacted Porsche's Dennis Olsen, who mislaid power arsenic helium tried to debar a pileup — with his car bursting into flames erstwhile it crashed into the barrier.

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Schumacher was initially fixed the all-clear aft the mishap - but caller scans amusement helium has breached his spine.

David is the lad of erstwhile F1 operator Ralf Schumacher, Michael's brother, who told Motorsport magazine: "When David came home, helium inactive complained of backmost pain.

"We past decided to sojourn a infirmary successful Salzburg to person an MRI. It turned retired that a lumbar vertebra is broken.

"According to the attending physicians, this means a interruption of astir six weeks for David."

David Schumacher's clang astatine Hockenheim. (Porsche Motorsport/Getty)

David's parent Cora took to societal media to supply an update connected his health, portion taking purpose astatine Preining.

"Nevertheless, I person to accidental that I find it perfectly not good of Thomas Preining to explicit himself negatively astir our lad each clip without immoderate self-reflection.

"He himself had oversteering and did not person his car nether control. It's ever easier to look for the mistakes successful others."

Other drivers commented connected the severity of the crash, BMW operator Philipp Eng: "It looked similar a fearfulness movie. That's not however it works, that's harm successful the millions again."

René Rast added: "These are atrocious scenes that we don't cognize from the DTM. There were precocious forces astatine work."

As for David's relative Mick, lad of Michael Schumacher, uncertainty clouds his F1 future with Haas yet to renew his declaration beyond the extremity of this year.

If Haas goes successful different direction, it's understood Schumacher could beryllium offered an F1 lifeline by Williams, who are not renewing Nicholas Latifi's contract.

"Mick deserves to enactment successful F1. We'll spot if that happens, but he's decidedly an enactment for us," Williams squad main Jost Capito said erstwhile asked astir speculation.

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