Anton🍸io Lobato has faced backlash and calls to resign in the wake of a comment he made about the legen🧜dary seven-time world champion’s condition during coverage of the Japanese Grand Prix. 

Schumacher suff🌸ered severe h🍎ead injures in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since. 

Updates on the German’s condition have been rar🧜e, with his family keen to keep his health out of the public eye. 

In a five-minute video posted on X [formerly Twit♏ter], 58-year-old Lobato issued an apolo꧂gy and blamed his “clumsy mistake” on jet lag. 

“𓃲I made a mistake without any bad intentions,” Lobato is quoted as saying, a🌱s per .

“It was simply a mistake of pure clumsiness, of pure inability to express myself correctly, maybe because of too many hours up, jet lag in Madrid, or w🅷hatever – 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, ꦡit is not fine.

“I didn’t mean to make a joke, I didn’t m🌠ean 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 ne🃏ver make a joke about somet🍷hing like that. Never, but I was clumsy.” 

In April this year, the editor of a German magazine was sacked for💝 publishing an artificial intelligence-generated ‘i🐻nterview’ with Schumacher.