F1 Boss Reveals Shocking Truth About Past Beef With Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher once showed his former boss Eddie Jordan what he’s capable of when he’s mad.

Before joining Benetton, Michael was under the tutelage of the Jordan Grand Prix founder. The pair only teamed up for one race, but Michael’s younger brother Ralf stayed.

Things were quite good memories between Michael and Jordan, but the infamous incident at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix changed everything.

At the time, Michael was already with Ferrari and Ralf was representing Jordan GP alongside Damon Hill.

In the middle of the race, Michael was already ahead of everybody when the German driver suddenly collided with McLaren’s David Coulthard, forcing the Ferrari star to withdraw.

In the end, Jordan GP won a 1-2 finish with Ralf being ordered by Jordan not to compete with his teammate Hill en route to the finish line.

Recently recalling the story, Jordan revealed that Michael was furious over his brother being denied the chance to claim the number one spot.

“Michael was antagonized. He was not happy,” Jordan said on “This Sporting Life” podcast. “The person he was not happy with was DC [Coulthard]. He went charging into the garage of DC and he wanted to beat him up. DC was a clever old Scot. He kept his helmet on. The only person who was going to get hurt was the hands or the knuckles of Michael Schumacher.”

“The next person protocol was to come to find me,” the Formula One boss added. “I genuinely thought he was coming to say ‘well done! I started with you, and here you are some years later, at the same venue, same place, where it all happened for me.’ But no. Not even a word of congratulations. All he wanted to do was try and beat me up for not allowing Ralf to win the race.”

“He said clearly ‘he (Ralf) will never drive for you again’,” he continued. “And I said, ‘perfectly fine, Michael. There’s a contract there. You can buy him out of his contract.”

Michael kept his word and did everything he could to get Ralf out of Jordan GP at the end of the 1998 season.

The younger Schumacher joined Williams the following year where he would spend the best years of his motorsports career.

Jordan, on the other hand, also moved on from the incident and replaced Ralf with Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who would continue to win two more races for Jordan in 1999.