Berger: Schumacher is unbeatable

Berger says there is "no chance" of beating Schumacher

Gerhard Berger says Michael Schumacher's rivals can forget about winning the Formula One world title this season.

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Former Ferrari driver Berger is now head of motorsport at Williams' engine partners BMW, but he has no doubt that Schumacher is in a class of his own.

"Forget the drivers' championship. There's just no chance," said Berger.

"I think we have an outside chance in the constructors' championship, but not a real chance," added the Austrian.

There will be circuits which are much more difficult for us

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Michael Schumacher

Reigning world champion Schumacher now leads Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya in the standings by a massive 21 points as he chases a record-equalling fifth title.

In the constructors' championship Ferrari have 50 points, all but six scored by Schumacher, while Williams have 43 and McLaren 13.

Williams technical director Patrick Head is marginally more optimistic than Berger about the chances of a Williams driver beating Schumacher.

He told BBC Sport Online: "We will be a lot closer at the next race, but we are going to have to improve a lot very quickly in order to get back into a competitive position.

Patrick Head is determined to improve the Williams

"We expected to be some way behind here so we are not too surprised.

"Meanwhile, there is obviously a deficiency in the complete package and we have to make sure we improve it because we don't want to be quick at some tracks and slow at others."

Schumacher himself said that he did not think the title was a foregone conclusion, stressing the importance of different tracks on the performance of his Ferrari.

Asked whether he could see Ferrari's domination being threatened, other than by problems of reliability, he answered: "Honestly, yes.

"This is basically the same car we had in Brazil and I thought we had a very close battle there.

"So you have circuits which really favour us and circuits which are very close.

"There will be circuits which are much more difficult for us."