FEBRUARY 2, 1998

Schumacher works miracles...

WHILE some people in Formula 1 found that Nigel Mansell had the ability to send people into comas when he started talking, Michael Schumacher seems to have the opposite effect.

WHILE some people in Formula 1 found that Nigel Mansell had the ability to send people into comas when he started talking, Michael Schumacher seems to have the opposite effect. The Ferrari star was asked by the parents of a 24-year-old fan in Italy to record a special message to help to bring their son - a Ferrari fan - out of the coma in which he has been since a motorcycle accident in March last year.

Schumacher's message appears to have been successful with the young man waking up after several weeks of therapy, no doubt wondering why Michael Schumacher has been talking to him!