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German-born Michael Schumacher, the most successful driver ever for the Ferrari Formula One team, turned 50 years old in January, and the company is celebrating his life and career with an exhibit entitled “Michael 50” at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, that runs until April 30.

After retiring from racing (for the second time), Schumacher was in a horrific 2013 accident in the French Alps that left him with a traumatic brain injury. He reportedly came out of a medically induced coma in 2014, and is still convalescing at his home in Switzerland.

Schumacher won seven Formula One world titles—more than anyone else—and had 91 Grand Prix victories. Born in 1969, he started racing in go karts at age four, and began his career in Formula One in 1991 (during the Belgian Grand Prix), and soon after began driving for Benetton. He won the driver’s championship for that company in 1994 and 1995. The big switch to Ferrari came in 1996, and for that storied marque he again came out on top—in a celebrated consecutive run from 2000 to 2004.

Schumacher retired for the first time in 2006, though he continued to do development work for Ferrari, and then returned to the track in 2010 to drive for Mercedes (and was reportedly paid £20 million over a three-year contract). He did not have another first-place season, and retired again—for good this time—in 2012. At that time, he was frequently called the best overall driver to ever race in Formula One.

Some of the single-seater cars Schumacher drove during his 11 years with Ferrari. Ferrari photo

Schumacher was sometimes cited for dangerous driving, and for having an unfriendly attitude toward the press. He is reported to have amassed a fortune of US$683 million by 2010, and was cited by Eurobusiness as a billionaire in 2005. He married Corinna Betsch in 1995, had two children, and in 2007 moved to a mansion with a private beach on Lake Geneva, an underground garage (where he kept a Fiat 500 Abarth), and its own gas station.

The exhibit, Ferrari said in a press release, “is intended both as a celebration and a mark of gratitude to the most successful Prancing Horse driver ever.” Schumacher, the company said, “has a special place in Ferrari’s history.”

The displays include a number of the single-seater Ferraris that Schumacher drove in his 11 years with the company, including a 1996 F310 in which he won three Grand Prix races his first season, and the F1-2000 he used to win the Japanese Grand Prix in 2000. That success led to Ferrari’s first world driver’s championship win in 21 years. The 248 F1 that Schumacher drove to achieve his 72nd (and final) victory for Ferrari is also on display.

After his retirement from driving for the company, Schumacher helped develop Ferrari road cars (always a secondary concern to founder Enzo Ferrari), and examples of that work—a 2008 Ferrari California and a 2007 430 Scuderia—are part of the exhibit.

Also on view are photographs from Ferrari archives, and memorabilia including racing helmets. The exhibit was organized in partnership with the Keep Fighting Foundation, which celebrates Schumacher’s career and will also support neurological research and new innovations in head protection. Schumacher was wearing a ski helmet at the time of his accident, and it is credited with saving his life.

“Michael 50” was extended from its original run, and runs concurrently with two other exhibits, “Driven by Enzo” and “Passion and Legend.”