Sep.12 (GMM) Ralf Schumacher has revealed he’s now being blanked by Flavio Briatore, after criticising the 75-year-old Alpine advisor and de-facto crew boss earlier this yr.
The 50-year-old German, a former Components 1 race winner, has change into certainly one of Sky Deutschland’s most outspoken pundits. Again in Could, he declared that Briatore was “too outdated” to return to the paddock as a full-time crew boss.
Now, Schumacher – earlier blacklisted by Aston Martin over one other spherical of vital remarks – says the connection is damaged.
“Flavio Briatore just isn’t speaking to me now,” he admitted. “He’s actually indignant with me as a result of he misunderstood what I mentioned.
“I simply mentioned that individuals like Flavio and, for that matter, Christian Horner, can’t be position fashions on their very own. We have to comply with the instance of McLaren.”
He insists his level was about trendy management in an ever-more-complex F1.
“Somebody has to do the advertising and marketing, work with folks, entice the personnel that Andrea Stella wants,” Schumacher defined. “That’s what I meant, and it’s not nearly Flavio, it’s additionally about Horner.
“It has nothing to do with age. I like Flavio, and naturally he gained’t have the ability to do that for an additional 100 years. However occasions have simply modified.”
Earlier this yr, Schumacher backed Alpine’s controversial transfer to advertise rookie Franco Colapinto, however argued that Briatore was “too outdated” to tackle the crew principal position every day following his 2023 coronary heart surgical procedure.
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