News has broken in Imola that Michael and Ralf Schumacher’s 55 year old mother Elizabeth is seriously ill in a Cologne hospital, where she has been since Thursday of last week. Immediately after securing an all-Schumacher front row on the grid, the first since last year’s German GP, the two brothers left the track to be with their mother. As the new F1 timetable introduced this year does not include a Sunday morning warm-up session, they intend to be back in time to take part in tomorrow’s 62 lap San Marino Grand Prix.