A move was never on the cardsA move for
Michael Schumacher from Ferrari to Red Bull was never on the cards last year.
That is the insistence of Red Bull magnate and Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, despite widespread speculation last year that said 38-year-old
Schumacher was weighing up whether to retire or simply move to another team.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt at the time dismissed the Red Bull gossip as "fantasy" - a description now backed by the man purportedly at the middle of the saga.
"Schumacher never received an offer from us," Mateschitz told the German newspaper Die Welt. "It would have been wrong both for him and for us."
He agrees with Todt that if the seven time world champion ever returns to the grand prix paddock, it will be with one of the big teams.
"Schumacher's is the biggest name in formula one," Mateschitz insisted. "If he comes back, surely it would be with Ferrari or one of the other top teams. It would of course be fantastic for formula one, but I think it is too premature a topic for the moment."
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