Motor Sport: Michael Schumacher said today that he could never make a Formula One comeback even if he wanted to because the sport will continue developing at a heady pace.
"Formula One is constantly changing," Schumacher said in a first interview since retiring at the end of last season after a record seven world championships.
"The technology, the engines, the rules, the circuits. Once you're out of it, you're out," the 37 year-old a German magazine in an article due to appear on Friday.
Even though Schumacher repeatedly distanced himself from a return to the sport he dominated for so long, a spectacular performance at the end of the 2006 season in which he was second fuelled speculation in Germany he would not stay away for good.