Michael Schumacher insider has revealed F1 legend's true health condition

Details of Michael Schumacher's health condition has been revealed by Alpine team boss Flavio Briatore after the F1 legend signed an exclusive helmet.

Having won the Formula One driver's championship a record-setting seven time, motorsports legend Schumacher is widely regarded as one of, if not the, best F1 drivers of all time.

Tragically, just one year after he announced his retirement from the sport, Schumacher was involved in a life-altering skiing accident that led to him being airlifted to hospital in Grenoble.

Since the accident, details of the former driver's conditions has been kept relatively private, with only a select few people kept informed on Schumacher's health, and even fewer allowed to visit him at his home in Gland, Switzerland.

F1 legend Briatore is one of the few that knows some of the details of Schumacher's condition, and he has recently spoken out to offer some insight the former Ferrari star's life.

During his time as Benetton team boss of Benetton between 1993 and 1996, Briatore worked alongside Schumacher achieving 19 race wins and two Driver's World Championships in 1994 and 1995, alongside the Constructors' Championship in 1995.

Since the accident Briatore hasn't visited Schumacher, deciding against making the trip as he would rather remember how he was before the tragic ski trip, but in a recent interview with Correire della Sera, he revealed some details about his friend's health.

While speaking with the Italian outlet, Briatore appeared to indicate that Schumacher was at least partially bed-bound.

He said: "If I close my eyes. I see him smiling after a victory. I prefer to remember him like that, rather than him just lying on a bed."

Briatore explained that he still is in regular touch with Schumacher's wife Corinna, but has not requested to visit the driver.

Explaining the decision in an interview with RTL, he said: "We last saw each other at a boxing event in Germany, a few months before his terrible skiing accident

"I want to remember Michael as he was - full of energy and strength, he wouldn't want me to remember him the way he is now."

Schumacher signs race helmet alongside other F1 champions

Although Schumacher's accident is believed to have been significantly life-altering, he was still able to take part in a historic signing of a race helmet 11 years after the skiing trip.

Alongside every living F1 world champion, Schumacher, with the help of his wife, signed a helmet with his initials “MS”, which is being sold to raise funds for Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity.

The white helmet, as worn by Stewart during his three-world title F1 career, boasts the signatures of the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.

“It is wonderful that Michael could sign the helmet in this worthy cause – a disease for which there is no cure,” Stewart told the Daily Mail.

“His wife helped him, and it completed the set of every single champion still with us.”