Eddie Jordan has given a rare Michael Schumacher update, stating that the Formula One legend is 'there but not there’.
The Bahrain Grand Prix takes place this Sunday as the new season gets underway.
And Jordan spoke about Mick Schumacher and his father Michael ahead of the new season.
Eddie Jordan was speaking to OLBG ahead of the new season and also revealed that Mick Schumacher was not named after his father.
He said: "Well, there's a little story that I'm happy to share, and that is that Mick Schumacher isn't named after his dad like a lot of people seem to think. Mick Schumacher is named after a person whose father, Michael, was in total awe of a sportsman who had won five world titles back to back with Honda and that is none other than Mick Doohan.
"As a result of that, and as a mark of respect, Michael Schumacher called his son Mick. There's a lot going on there and the respect is huge."
Mick Schumacher will act as reserve driver for Mercedes this year after parting ways with Haas and Jordan touched upon the relationship between Mick and his father Michael.
"It can't be easy knowing that your father is not able to be part of the family, he's there but he's not there. I have my own view that I don't want to make public but my guess is that Mick showed elating compassion and the way he spoke about his father when the season was not going particularly well for him, he's been dropped for somebody else, and that's a tough decision, he has another fight to come back and to make his name, climb up that ladder again.
"I'm quite sure he will do it. Maybe it was the right thing that happened, but it touched me because I felt so much about Michael, I went out of my way to find him, give him his first chance in Spa, didn't last very long but that love for him still lasts and will always do so while I'm able to draw breaths."
Michael Schumacher made his Formula One debut at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix for the Jordan-Ford team before going on to have one of the most decorated careers in the sport's history.
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