Ralf Schumacher will need surgery this week after dislocating his shoulder and snapping off a bone fragment in a jet ski crash on Stefan Raab’s celebrity TV show.
The six-time race winner capsized at a buoy on the Duisburg regatta course with Raab himself sitting on the back of the machine. Onsite medics popped the joint back in and pulled him out of the water.
An X-ray late Saturday evening and an MRI on Sunday morning at BG Klinikum Duisburg then revealed the fracture, meaning surgery.
“It was just a shoulder dislocation, but unfortunately a piece of bone also broke, so I’ll need a small surgery,” Schumacher said, according to GPFans.
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From “Speed Duel” heat winner to hospital bed
The Jetski Star WM is a Raab-produced celebrity race on RTL+, and Saturday’s field also included Joey Kelly, Jens “Knossi” Knossalla and Ninja Warrior athlete René Casselly. Schumacher had won his individual “Speed Duel” heat before Casselly beat him in the final.
The crash that ended his night came in a later run, when he swung the jet ski hard to change direction and threw both himself and Raab into the water. Trying to climb back on and reset the joint himself only made the injury worse before medics could reach him.
“My shoulder was dislocated when I tried to turn the jet ski around so quickly,” he explained on the live broadcast.
“It’s not exactly pleasant, I have to admit,” Schumacher told Motorsport.com afterwards.
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“It takes a lot of skill to dislocate a shoulder while being pulled out of the water or capsizing a jet ski, but maybe I’m just getting too old for these things.”
Left hand on the microphone at Monza
Formula 1 is at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza from September 4 to 6 for the Italian Grand Prix, and Schumacher is scheduled to be part of Sky Deutschland’s paddock coverage across all three days.
“The operation will be over quickly and then I should be back in Monza as well,” he said, telling Motorsport-Total he will just have to hold the microphone with his left hand.
Practice starts on Friday, September 4, with the race on Sunday, September 6.
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