Confirmed: Schumacher returns with Mercedes
23 December 2009
After much speculation over the course of past weeks and three and a half years after his retirement from racing, 7-time World Champion Michael Schumacher will be making a sensational comeback next year with the Mercedes-Benz works team.
With several rumours having recently circulated surrounding the future of Schumacher, the German has remained silent as gossip continued about a possible Formula 1 comeback with the Champion Mercedes team, formerly Brawn GP.
Michael Schumacher is back after a 3-year break from driving
Michael Schumacher is back after a 3-year break from driving
Now, just two days before Christmas and with the driver set to be 41 years of age by the time the new season starts in Bahrain next March, the team has confirmed the deal in a press conference at its Stuttgart headquarters on Wednesday morning.
The return sees 'Schumi' reunited with Ross Brawn, Mercedes Team Principal, with whom he has worked during all of his championship years due to the Englishman's previous roles as Technical Director at the Benetton and Ferrari teams.
On retiring from F1 at the end of the 2006 season, having narrowly lost out in that year's title race to Renault's Fernando Alonso, Schumacher took with him an incredible statistics sheet of 91 race victories, 68 pole positions and 76 fastest laps as well as the championship titles record.
Following his debut at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, the former Jordan, Benetton and Ferrari driver has also finished on the podium more times than anybody, led more laps than any other driver in the history of the sport and scored a grand total of 1,369 World Championship points to date.
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