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A glorious fourth win in France for Michael, made sweeter by the fact that his mother was there to witness it, and his
twenty-third win. Michael pulled into pit row.....stood up in the car......removed his helmet.....smiled to the crew and said...
" Good job guys this win is yours as well...... Now on to Brazil and number twenty-four.” Little does he know things
were about to change. He has been living on the edge of a cliff and the rocks are beginning to crumble.
MICHAEL'S NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT
GRAND PRIX OF BRAZIL 2006
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No doubt distracted and his concentration not at its peak, Michael's uncanny luck ran out in Brazil. He would not walk
away from this one, he would have to be carried. Although alive, he is severely injured and unconscious. Cut from his mangled
race car, the rescue workers placed him on a backboard and into a helicopter. He is flown to the hospital.
After twenty seven hours of surgery, his eighty year old mother walking with her cane at his side, he is taken to a private
room.
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He had paid the price for inattention and lack of concentration. As his life hangs in the balance Michael remembered his
fathers words:
" Woman and children can be careless but not men." .... And his mother's
fears.
Latter in the hospital, after three days he regained consciousness in a body cast, with his aging and concerned mother
sitting at his bedside. The doctors told him he would never walk or race again. He looks at them with a set determined face,
his eyes cold as stones...
His mother holding his bandaged hand, looks at the doctors, smiled proudly and said " You not know my son. He just like
his papa. You look that face. Then you say he not do something."
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Incapacitated with near fatal injuries Michael returned to the family’s estate in upstate New York. There under
the care of his aging mother, he learned to walk again and has fully recovered. Michael has returned to racing, despite his
mother’s fears.
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