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.&nbsꦬp;

Sc🦋humacher suffered severe head injures in a skiing 🎃accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since. 

Updates on the German’s conditio🦩n have been rare, witꦆh his family keen to keep his health out of the public eye. 

In a five-minute video posted on X [formerly Twitte𝔉r], 58-year-old Lobato issued an apo♛logy and blamed his “clumsy mistake” on jet lag. 

“I made a mistake without any bad inte﷽ntions,” Lobato is quoted as saying, as per .

“It was simply a mistake of pure clumsiness, of pure inabiꦓlity to express myself 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.

ღ“What happened is that I went ꩵtoo far and made an expression that is not good, it is not accurate, it is not fine.

“I didn’t mean to m𓆉ake a joke, I didn’t mean to make𝓰 fun of Michael Schumacher.

“I think that everyone who knows me and knows what I’m like knows perfectly well that I would never make a joke about somethin🌳g like that. Never, but I was clumsy.” 

In April this year, the editor of a German magazine was sacked for publishing an👍 artificial intelligence-ge🌸nerated ‘interview’ with Schumacher.