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There will be no home-town celebration for Michael Schumacher's 20th anniversary in F1.
The seven-times World champion will return to to Spa-Francorchamps, where he made his F1 GP debut in 1991, for the 2011 Belgian F1 GP this weekend.
Kerpen, Schumacher's home town, will be quiet and mayor Marlies Seiburg told the DAPD news agency that nothing was planned for Schumacher's anniversary.
"We have found interest of the spectators is no longer on the same scale," she said.
Schumacher's first F1 boss Eddie Jordan featured prominently in the German media by revealing Renault's plans to drop Nick Heidfeld and calling Schumacher "an old fart".
SCHUMI LIED: JORDAN
Jordan also contradicted Schumacher's claim that his manager Willi Weber accidentally lied about the fact he had never raced at Spa before his 1991 debut.
"I asked him (Schumacher) and Weber if Michael had ever been to Spa. Both said yes. Taken literally, it might be true, but actually it was an outright lie. Had they told the truth, I would not have let him race," Jordan said.
Jordan also admitted that he only signed Schumacher as Bertrand Gachot's one-off replacement because "I just needed the money", referring to the $150 000 paid by Schumacher's Sauber-Mercedes team.
Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm told Bild it was good if Jordan kept Schumacher in the media spotlight.
The seven-times World champion will return to to Spa-Francorchamps, where he made his F1 GP debut in 1991, for the 2011 Belgian F1 GP this weekend.
Kerpen, Schumacher's home town, will be quiet and mayor Marlies Seiburg told the DAPD news agency that nothing was planned for Schumacher's anniversary.
"We have found interest of the spectators is no longer on the same scale," she said.
Schumacher's first F1 boss Eddie Jordan featured prominently in the German media by revealing Renault's plans to drop Nick Heidfeld and calling Schumacher "an old fart".
SCHUMI LIED: JORDAN
Jordan also contradicted Schumacher's claim that his manager Willi Weber accidentally lied about the fact he had never raced at Spa before his 1991 debut.
"I asked him (Schumacher) and Weber if Michael had ever been to Spa. Both said yes. Taken literally, it might be true, but actually it was an outright lie. Had they told the truth, I would not have let him race," Jordan said.
Jordan also admitted that he only signed Schumacher as Bertrand Gachot's one-off replacement because "I just needed the money", referring to the $150 000 paid by Schumacher's Sauber-Mercedes team.
Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm told Bild it was good if Jordan kept Schumacher in the media spotlight.