Motor racing-Ralf Schumacher comes out as gay in social media post

Rolf (L) and Ralf Schumacher (R), the father and brother of former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher respectively, arrive at the CHU hospital emergency unit in Grenoble, French Alps, where Michael is hospitalised, January 5, 2014. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/ File Photo

(Reuters) - Former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, younger brother of seven times world champion and Ferrari great Michael, announced on Sunday he was in a same sex relationship.

"The most beautiful thing in life is when you have the right partner by your side with whom you can share everything," he wrote below an Instagram photograph of himself and another man with their arms around each other watching a sunset over the ocean.