Former Champion in attendance at Magny Cours For the third year running the Federation Française du Sport Automobile and the Institute for Cerebral and Medullar Disorders (ICM) are joining forces at the French Grand Prix to provide an exceptional event.
On this occasion,
Michael Schumacher will spend the weekend at the Magny-Cours circuit. He will be back on a track on which he has written some of the outstanding pages of his career. He has scored eight victories in the race, and won it for the fifth time in 2002 equalling Juan Manuel Fangio’s record set in 1957. Two years later he became the first driver to win a Grand Prix on a strategy that included four pitstops.
Jean Todt, Ferrari Team Principal and founder of ICM
“The Magny-Cours rendez-vous is now a tradition to back the ICM Foundation, and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the FFSA for the help it has always given us.
I’ve always been struck by sensitivity of the F1 enthusiasts who go to the circuit and follow our initiative to develop medical research for brain and spinal cord injuries. It shows us that sport can help mobilise people’s conscience about a subject that concerns everybody, and I’m sure that this time their generosity will be greater than ever. It’s thanks to their help that this year we can lay the first stone of the ICM.”
Michael Schumacher"For me, helping to create and develop the ICM has always been something obvious: a duty in fact. It’s a fantastic project managed by some exceptional people. I’m both happy and proud to be able to contribute to it.”
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