Dr Helmut Marko has hit back at claims he has “a problem with the Schumacher name”. Ralf says team owner Red Bull’s top Austrian official Marko vetoed the deal. “Marko seems to have a problem with the Schumacher name or personally with Mick,” he said. “Having a Schumacher in your Formula 1 team would have had a lot of positive influence,” Schumacher added. Marko, 80, lashed back at that suggestion in conversation with the Austrian newspaper Osterreich. “I have no problem with the Schumacher name,” he insisted. “For me, Michael Schumacher is the greatest and I speak to Ralf regularly.

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