By Luke Marc Carlile-Stanton
September 12 2006

One of Europe's top newspaper's ''Bild-Zeitung'' has claimed that tensions between Toyota's Ralf and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher is at an ''all time low.''

The two apparantly never share a mutual word. This continued last Sunday where Michael announced he would retire from Formula 1 at the end of the year. A clear indication of the tension between the two was wen Ralf said he expected to find out about Michael's plans via text message.

Then in Micahel's announcement on Sunday, The 7 times World Champion thanked his mother, father, his wife Corina and his Children-But Ralf was missing from this list, why? Well who knows but Michael continued by saying that future of German motorsport was in good hands, he picked out BMW-Sauber ddrivers Nick Heidfeld and their third driver Sebastian Vettel in particular. He said;

''Nick Heidfeld has shown what he can do in a good car, and with Sebastian Vettel we have new generation driver......Have i forgotten anyone'' 

Ralf told the newspaper; ''Michael and I are very different people. We have different interests, different lives.'' He continued ''You don't have to be best friends with your brother.''

So, Clearly handbags at dawn in the Schumacher camp.......