While being inducted into the Automotive "Hall of Fame", Ferrari's former head honcho Luca di Montezemolo dedicated the honor to the ailing seven-time Formula 1 world champion, Michael Schumacher. The retired German race-car driver is still under medication, with a 'painfully slow' recovery progress.

"I don't know if I would have received this award without him," said the former long-time Ferrari president as he received his Hall of Fame award. "It is dedicated to him, because he is trying to win his toughest race." Di Montezemolo has expressed his sadness to the ill-fated situation his friend whom according to him, he has shared so much with. "To know that he now lies in bed for such a long time is very sad."

On December 2013, the former race-car driver Michael Schumacher was seriously injured following a ski incident in the French Alps. As noted by Gospel Herald, the 46-year-old retired driver lost control and crashed into snow-covered rock, causing a lot of brain damage. The incident has left him in coma that he awoke from April last year.

Updates on Schumacher's recovery have been scarce for a while now after his wife, Corinna, implemented a complete media blackout. But according to Inquisitr, an insider claims that the patient's recovery progress is 'painfully slow'. He is currently being treated at his Swiss mansion near Lake Geneva, with a round-the-clock team of 15 doctors and nurse care.

Peter Hamlyn, a neurological surgeon and consultant, has revealed that it may take several months and even years before drastic improvements will be seen. "What tortures the public is the same thing that tortures the family - progress is slow, progress is uncertain," Hamlyn declared. "The first months are dominated by questions of survival. Gradually as the weeks and months go by those questions of survival turn into questions of the quality of survival."

Schumacher is known to be one of the most successful Formula 1 racers in the history of sport. He has topped most world championships, fastest laps, pole positions, race victories and overall race wins in one single season. He is noted to have worked with Jordan, Benetton, Mercedes, and Ferrari, where he worked alongside Luca Di Montezemolo, before retiring back on 2012.