Hello, I'm Sabine Kiem and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.

Hi everyone, happy new year. I think we can still say that.

It's Tom Clarkson here with the second of two very special episodes of Beyond the Grid,

presented by Bose Quiet Comfort 352 Wireless Headphones.

It was Michael Schumacher's 50th birthday on January the 3rd,

and to celebrate such a landmark, there's been a wealth of content across Formula 1's channels

dedicated to the seven-time champ. We kicked off Schumacher week seven days ago with a feature length

conversation with Ross Braun, the man who engineered the German Maestro throughout those incredible

years of domination. This week, we're closing our celebrations with another fabulous guest.

The person you're about to hear from is one of the few people to have witnessed the public

and private sides of Michael Schumacher. Having worked with him first as a journalist,

then as his PR and more recently as his manager, I'm talking about Sabine Kiem.

She quiz Michael with a dictaphone when he was winning championships for Beneton,

and she worked alongside him when he was dominating F1 at Ferrari,

and she continues to manage his business affairs to this day. She's known Michael for a long time,

and she knows him better than most. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Sabine, welcome to Beyond the Grid. It's lovely to have you with us.

Someone is a very special week, of course, Michael's 50th birthday, and on behalf of all of the

listeners, I'd just like to say, keep fighting Michael. He's in all our thoughts.

Yeah, thank you. I really appreciate it. I'm sure Michael's family and Michael himself appreciate

that a lot. It's been incredible, the amount of sympathy which came to them,

and which, I don't know if you know that, but in the end, the family decided

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