If her husband pulls through these first few days, Corinna Schumacher will spend the next few months in a haze of hospitals and hotels as she tries to understand the medics’ jargon and maintain some normality for their two children. Theirs was a privileged yet private life of snow sport, equestrianism and motor racing. Michael would have felt that he knew his physical limits and, after 18 years of marriage, Corinna would have learnt to trust his judgment. She must have felt his danger days were over when he finally left Formula One in 2012.