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Michael Schumacher back at Magny-Cours

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER BACK AT MAGNY COURS The 7-times world champion will attend the French Grand Prix in the context of the agreement again linking the FFSA and the ICM. For the third year running the Federation FranÃ§aise du Sport Automobile and ...

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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER BACK AT MAGNY COURS

The 7-times world champion will attend the French Grand Prix in the context of the agreement again linking the FFSA and the ICM. 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, the recently retired 7-times F1 World Champion, 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 (1994,95, 97, 98, 2001, 02, 04, 06), and won it for the fifth time in 2002 equalling Juan Manuel Fangios record set in 1957. Two years later he became the first driver to win a grand prix on a strategy that included four pitstops.

As in previous years track baptisms will be organised for the ICM. Donors can win a lap of the track in a Ferrari with Michael Schumacher as well as a driving suit signed by the champion. These baptisms will be held during the race weekend in front of the Formula 1 players in the fevered ambience of a grand prix. There will be an ICM booth at the Magny-Cours circuit to provide spectators with information and collect their donations.

In the words of Jean Todt, the Ferrari SpA chief administrator and founder of the 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. Ive 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 peoples conscience about a subject that concerns everybody, and Im sure that this time their generosity will be greater than ever. Its 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. Its a fantastic project managed by some exceptional people. Im both happy and proud to be able to contribute to it.

The Institute for Cerebral and Medullar Disorders is the fruit of the collaboration of three world-renowned professors: Gérard Saillant, an orthopaedic and traumatology surgeon, and neurologists Yves Agid and Olivier Lyon-Caen. It is backed by Luc Besson, Louis Camilleri, Jean Glavany, Maurice Lévy, Jean-Philippe Martel, Max Mosley, Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt and Serge Weinberg.

It is a project of international scientific excellence which will enable the mechanism of neurological diseases to be studied (Alzheimers disease and Parkinsons disease, amyotromorphic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and strokes) plus psychiatric illnesses (reactional depression, psychosis, schizophrenia) traumas to the brain and spinal cord as well as the resulting treatments.

-credit: magny cours

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