A simple deal to get back into F1New formula one team co-owner Gerhard Berger has denied suggestions that he could test the Scuderia Toro Rosso car.
Although the 46-year-old Austrian contested 210 Grands Prix between 1984 and 1997, he ruled out leaping into the new STR01 racer`s cockpit.
"Not at my age," Berger laughed to Switzerland`s Blick newspaper.
He also revealed that the STR deal with Dietrich Mateschitz was not his only opportunity to return to the pitlane since hanging up his BMW chief`s hat in 2003.
"I received many offers to become a director in large teams. But I am an entrepreneur, so I want to have some fun too."
He said his fifty per cent purchase of Toro Rosso was hashed out over a drink in Salzburg with his long time friend, Mateschitz.
"Didi said to me, `I want to buy half of your (shipping) company`," Berger told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, "I replied `then I want to buy half of Toro Rosso. So we did it!"
Berger will definitely attend the opening Grand Prix of 2006, in Bahrain.
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