28 Facts About Cora Schumacher

Cora Schumacher was born on Cora-Caroline Brinkmann; 27 December 1976 and is a German television and media personality.

Cora Schumacher is best known for her former marriage to racing driver Ralf Schumacher.

Cora Schumacher is daughter of the petrol station owner Gerd Brinkmann and his wife Ingrid.

Cora Schumacher lived in the German capital of Berlin for a short period of time in 2000, where she worked as a sales representative for the retail clothing company Diesel.

In May 2001, nude photographs of Cora Schumacher that were taken by Jens Bruggemann for an unpublished book were published in the German tabloid press.

Cora Schumacher later featured on the cover of the German edition of GQ on its October 2003 issue.

Cora Schumacher began her racing career by entering the Mini Challenge Deutschland in 2004.

Cora Schumacher completed her first two races in 22nd and 18th positions.

Cora Schumacher returned to the cockpit soon after, finishing the season 27th in the points standings.

Cora Schumacher continued to complete in the Mini Challenge Deutschland in 2005; her performance diminished, finishing 34th in the Drivers' Championship.

Cora Schumacher spent the next four years out of competitive motor racing.

Cora Schumacher undertook television work for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, and portrayed the rally driver Carina Schuster in three episodes of the Das Erste soap opera Marienhof in April 2009.

Cora Schumacher returned to motorsport when she joined the Lechner Racing School team for the second half of the Mini Challenge Deutschland series in 2010.

Cora Schumacher tested at the Hockenheimring to reacquaint herself with driving.

Cora Schumacher began the 2012 season competing in the Dubai 24 Hour, again with the Bestaplast Racing Team.

Cora Schumacher moved to the Mini Trophy for the year, finishing with 85 points and a final placing of 15th in the drivers' championship.

Cora Schumacher was one of fourteen celebrities announced as taking part in the eighth season of the dance competition Let's Dance in March 2015.

Cora Schumacher was partnered with the professional choreographer Erich Klann; the couple were eliminated in the competition's second week.

Cora Schumacher appeared on the German edition of the magazine Playboy in June 2015.

Cora Schumacher entered the three races of the 2016 Deutscher Tourenwagen Cup, driving a Mini Cooper for Caisley AEG ID in the Production 1 category, and taking three podium finishes for a sixth place standing in the final drivers' championship standings.

Cora Schumacher had been due to compete in the 2017 Dubai 24 Hour until she withdrew due to a biceps tendon rupture she sustained in October 2016.

Nevertheless, Cora Schumacher recovered to take part in four rounds of the 2017 GT4 European Series Northern Cup, sharing a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR entered by the Besagroup Racing Team with Franjo Kovac in the AM Cup class.

Cora Schumacher finished the season 13th in the class drivers' championship with 46 points.

Cora Schumacher remained with the Besagroup team for the 2018 season.

Cora Schumacher shared a Mercedes-AMG GT R SP-X with Kovac, Roland Asch, Sebastian Asch and Fidel Leib at the Dubai 24 Hour, finishing fourth in the GT4 category and 33rd overall.

On 17 August 2018, Cora Schumacher was confirmed as a contestant on the sixth series of the reality television programme Promi Big Brother.

Cora Schumacher has described herself as a quiet individual in public, and was reticent towards the press in her early years.

From October 2001 to February 2015, she was married to the Formula One racing driver Ralf Cora Schumacher, who is a younger brother to seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Cora Schumacher.