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 group boss earlier this yr.
The 50-year-old German, a former Components 1 race winner, has change into one in every of Sky Deutschland’s most outspoken pundits. Again in Could, he declared that Briatore was “too previous” to return to the paddock as a full-time group boss.
Now, Schumacher – earlier blacklisted by Aston Martin over one other spherical of crucial remarks – says the connection is damaged.
“Flavio Briatore will not be speaking to me now,” he admitted. “He’s actually offended with me as a result of he misunderstood what I stated.
“I simply stated that individuals like Flavio and, for that matter, Christian Horner, can’t be function fashions on their very own. We have to comply with the instance of McLaren.”
He insists his level was about fashionable management in an ever-more-complex F1.
“Somebody has to do the advertising, work with individuals, 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 received’t have the ability to do that for one more 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 previous” to tackle the group principal function each day following his 2023 coronary heart surgical procedure.
