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Former manager of Schumacher: ''Starbucks never admit a mistake''
- GPblog.com
October 26, 1997 will always be a black day in the career of Michael Schumacher. Things went wrong in Jerez in the battle for the world title with Jacques Villeneuve and his deliberate or unconscious action also disqualified him.
Willi Weber's manager remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. "I wanted to talk to him as a friend, not a manager. I was really wondering what was on his mind at the time'', Weber says to Motorsport.com. However, the manager does not want to lose the exact content of that conversation.
Schumacher in error
''When you do something like that, you have to do it well, like Ayrton Senna did with Alain Prost in 1990. Now Michael was out and Jacques could take the world title. The days after that were bad for Michael. He was between anger and despair. He wanted to apologize, but was angry that he had made a mistake,'' says Weber more than 22 years later.
Open apologies would never come from Michael. "People with the constellation of Capricorn will rarely admit a mistake. So would Michael. Steeboks seldom make mistakes and if they do, they don't want to apologize'', is Weber's remarkable explanation.