Ralf Schumacher has disputed Eddie Jordan♔’s version of events, over the𝓀ir notorious falling-out at Silverstone.

The team owner recalled how his eventual split with his driver was sparke🦂d by an argument with Michael Schumacher, earlier in 1998.

Ralf and Jordan would go their separate ways after the ‘98 Formula 1 season and their relation𓂃ship went sour at the British Grand Prix.

Jordan told Ralf on the  podcast: “I was never sure how clo🍬se you were to Michael.

“He came to me in Spa and said ‘Ralf will never drive forไ you again!’

“I took out my palm and💝 said ‘there is a buyout clause in the contract, pay the money and off he goes! No problem!’

“He was quiet, and he went. Eventually…

“I believe it was a m🐬istake because the ‘99 car was a world championship car. You could have won the championship in that car.”

Ralf hit back: “But that wasn’t the way it happe🐟ned, Edd𝓀ie…”

Jordan insisted: “You went to Williams fo❀r the money!”

Ralf said: “You forgot why? You really forgot why? You don’t r🦩emember what you called me?

“I was lyℱing on my boat one day. EJ called me and said ‘I kn🌳ow we have a shitty car but we desperately need points’.

“He called me and said ‘if you don’t score points y🤪ou are out of the car’.

“I hung up the phone. 🐼I said ‘no matter what, we need something else, becওause I’m not going to work with this guy after this season’.

“That was the way it happened.”

Ralf’s career with the Jordan Grand ꦅPrix team was on the line heading into Silversto🐻ne in ‘98.

The German driver remembered: “In those days, you nꦬeed to finish seventh to be in the points. In qualifying our beautiful engine blew up so I started last on the grid!

“He came to me, on the grid, and said ‘don’t forget what I told you, you are ou🐠t if you don’t score points’.

“That’꧙s how I went into the ra🦩ce. That’s the truth.”

Jordan said: “Was it not good motivation?”

Ralf: “Amazing motivation. I scored points.”

Ralf finished the grand prix in❀ sixth, delivering the points that his boss demanded and saving his F1 career in the process.

But he would move to Williams for the 1999 season,🉐 resulting in the best p♒eriod of his career.

But Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who made the opposite switch from Will♛iams to Jordan, finished third in the ‘99 season, ahead of both Schumacher brothers.