Pollock Dreams of Villeneuve-Schumacher Team

Formula One champions and rivals Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher should be teammates for the sake of the sport, according to the Canadian's manager.

"Jacques belongs on one of the top four teams," Craig Pollock told a news conference before an annual charity ski marathon in Mont Tremblant next weekend. "What I'd like to see is Schumacher and Villeneuve together - not for Jacques or for Schumacher but for the sport.

"They did it in the era of (Ayrton) Senna and (Alain) Prost. The only way when there's one team so far ahead is to have two drivers battle each other on the same team."

Schumacher won 11 of the 17 races for Ferrari last season and the five times champion has a contract at the dominant Italian team until the end of 2004, as does his current Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello.

However Schumacher has long been the clear number one at Ferrari, with Barrichello forced to give way to the German in Austria this year, in a situation that has resulted in processional races.

McLaren ran fierce rivals Senna and Prost together in 1988 and 1989, with the Brazilian winning the title the first year and Prost the second in controversial circumstances.

Villeneuve, who has clashed with Schumacher over the years and won the title in 1997 after the German tried to run him off the track in the final European Grand Prix, is at British American Racing (BAR).

The Canadian is expected to move on after 2003, unless he agrees to take a considerably lower salary with a team that has yet to win a race since their debut in 1999. Pollock was one of the founders of BAR but quit as team principal a year ago.

Ferrari are not seen as an option, despite his late father Gilles ranking as one of the team's greatest and most spectacular drivers until his death in 1982.