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Schumacher linked with Toyota move

HAMBURG, Germany -- Michael Schumacher's manager Willi Weber has linked the seven-time Formula One world champion with Toyota should he choose to quit Ferrari at the end of the season.

Weber's remarks were published Tuesday by Germany's Bild daily -- and if the switch happened Schumacher could team up with his younger brother Ralf.

"What was Toyota's slogan again?," asked Weber in reference to the Japanese car maker's slogan in Germany: "nothing is impossible".

"Lets wait and see how the season goes," Weber said.

Speculation is growing since Schumacher said at the weekend that he wanted a one per cent option to leave Ferrari after the expiration of his contract at the end of the 2006 season.

"It's clear why Michael wants this one per cent. There have always been surprises in Formula One," said Weber, who has managed Schumacher throughout his F1 career and also Ralf until last year.

Weber was referring to the 2007 move of world champion Fernando Alonso from Renault to McLaren-Mercedes, but said there were other "big players as well".

"If Michael gives me the green light that he has reached a decision about his future then I'll take action," Weber told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.

Toyota's F1 team is based close to Schumacher's birthplace, Kerpen, in Cologne, and with a reported $400 million season's budget could easily afford the Ferrari star.

Ecclestone talks

The company which runs Germany's financially troubled Hockenheimring F1 track on Tuesday confirmed upcoming talks with Bernie Ecclestone but stopped short of saying that the F1 supremo is ready to save it.

The company, Hockenheimring GmbH, recently announced debts of euros 29 million ($35m) which endangers the track's future after 2006.

This year's German Grand Prix race is to take place as planned on July 30.

"It is only logical that talks with Ecclestone take place. But we have not yet talked to him," said company spokesman Hartmut Tesseraux.

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