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 workforce boss earlier this yr.
The 50-year-old German, a former Components 1 race winner, has turn out to be certainly one of Sky Deutschland’s most outspoken pundits. Again in Might, he declared that Briatore was “too outdated” to return to the paddock as a full-time workforce boss.
Now, Schumacher – earlier blacklisted by Aston Martin over one other spherical of crucial remarks – says the connection is damaged.
“Flavio Briatore isn’t speaking to me now,” he admitted. “He’s actually indignant with me as a result of he misunderstood what I stated.
“I simply stated that folks like Flavio and, for that matter, Christian Horner, can’t be position fashions on their very own. We have to observe the instance of McLaren.”
He insists his level was about trendy management in an ever-more-complex F1.
“Somebody has to do the advertising, work with folks, appeal to 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 instances 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backed Alpine’s controversial transfer to advertise rookie Franco Colapinto, however argued that Briatore was “too outdated” to tackle the workforce principal position each day following his 2023 coronary heart surgical procedure.
