scott watkins

December 12, 2009, 11:29 AM EST
BERLIN (AP) - German daily Bild claims seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to drive for Mercedes next year.

A report in Saturday's edition of the newspaper says the two parties have agreed to a one-year contract and will announce the deal next week.
Mercedes said that "there is always speculation as long as one seat in our team is not taken."

Schumacher's spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, declined to comment on the report.

The 41-year-old Schumacher retired in 2006 after winning a record number of F1 titles. He abandoned plans for a temporary comeback with Ferrari this year due to a neck injury in a motorcycle crash.

2ndof2

I'm a bit surprised. I thought he bled Ferarri red?

Mark in Baltimore

Yeah, but his vision is probably tinted by green.

cabrio993

he actually bleeds money green!

cabrio993

beat me to it.

ltc

The perfect Christmas present...I hope it's true.

mongrelcat

I will believe it when I see it.

e9stibi

The best that could happen to F1. Would make me watch races on TV again.

ltc

BTW, there is some good links and threads about this in the Racing/DE forum...

Bruce SEA 993

It may be about money but working again with Ross Brawn had to figure in too.

Interesting season coming up...

ltc

Nice reading here (link provided by RL member Ilko via the Racing/DE fourm):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6953929.ece

DB_NC_95C2

Supposedly 7m euros offered by Mercedes. I hope it happens. Nothing will make me happier than seeing him dust King "I am as good as Senna was" Lewis. Button made a HUGE mistake moving to McHamilton, he will not get equal equipment, despite all the lies about it emanating from Whitmarsh' mouth. Nico can learn a LOT from Michael. I wasn't Michael's biggest fan (punting Hill in 94, Villeneuve in 97, parking the car at Monaco during qualifying in 06) but I hope this happens. It would be a good bookend to his career starting with Sauber-Mercedes in the C11 prototype. Also I am REALLY happy Sauber is back as Sauber, I hope they do really well with the Ferrari engine and I am pleased as punch Frank Williams' strategy to vote to disallow Sauber as the 14th team (before Toyota pulled out) did not work. It was nothing more than him trying to steal Petronas.

ltc

I lost what little respect I may have had for Hamilton when he even used his name in the same sentence as Senna.

helmet155

I heard Cora is divorcing him so maybe he wants to drive again to stay busy.

A recent interview by bild led me to believe he is tired of motorcycle racing.

blitz928

+1