Spanish F1 pundit apologises for vile joke about Michael Schumacher’s condition
Antonio Lobato has faced backlash and calls to resign in the wake of a comment he made about the legendary seven-time world champion🦩’s condition♉ during coverage of the Japanese Grand Prix.
Schumacher suffered severeജ head injures in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since.
Updates on the German’s condition have been rare, with hi꧟s family keen to keep his health out of th๊e public eye.
In a five-minute video posted on X [formerly Twitter], 58-⛄year-old Lobato issued an apology and blamed his “clumsy mistake” on jet lag.
“I made a mistake without any bad intentions,” Lobato is qꦓuoted as saying, as per .
“It was simply a mistake of pure clumsiness, of pure inability to express mys♔elf correctly, maybe because of too many hours up, jet lag in Madrid, or whatever – which is not an excuse for those of you who didn’t see it.
“What happened is that I went too far and made an expression that is not good, it is not accurate, it is not♌ fine.
“I didn’t mean to make a joke, I didn’t mea💮n to make fun of Michael Schumacher.
“I think that everyone who knows me and knows what I’m like knows perfectly well that I would never makജe a joke about something like that. Never, but I was clumsy💯.”
In April this year, the editor of a German magazine was sacked for publishing an artificial intelligenc🐻e-generated ‘interview’ with Schumacher.
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