hacker-pschorr

Audi has already made a $12.5 million bid to reunite retiring Formula One driver Michael Schumacher with a race car.

According to the Cologne based 'Express' broadsheet, the German marque's competition boss Wolfgang Ullrich is hoping the offer will convince Schumacher - albeit with a personal fortune of more than half a billion dollars - to enter DTM or race at Le Mans.

The newspaper said $12.5m is more than the combined salary of all existing DTM drivers, including Schumacher's old F1 rival Mika Hakkinen.

But Ullrich cautioned: "I don't know if his contracts with Fiat and Ferrari would allow it."

37-year-old Schumacher's spokeswoman Sabine Kehm also played down the speculation, telling the BBC that he will 'miss the intensity (of racing) but really wants to let go for a while.'

Veloce Raptor

I will do it for a mere 10% of that.

My final offer....

M758

I'll do it for 5%!

Mike in Chi

A paltry $1.5625 million per hour (if he does a third of the driving)

or $26,000 a minute, a little less than 500 bucks a second

stuttgart46

How do they know he can drive a full fendered car?
Just joking.

Adam@Autometrics

Schumacher drove the Mercedes GTP car. Even before he got into F1, if I recall.
I hope he goes for it.

hacker-pschorr

You mean the Sauber Group-C car?

Jarez Mifkin

oh hell...if you guys are charging 5%, I'll do it for no fee, or I'll pay some to drive!!!

M758

Damn cheap labor.

Jarez Mifkin

When a R10 is in question, I'm as cheap as the come!!!

Cory M

It would be great to see Schumacher at Lemans.

Is there any way to watch the DTM races in the US? I saw a couple of them back before Fox bought Speedvision and they were pretty exciting.

Jarez Mifkin

They will start airing in the next month or so with one a week if they did what they did last year. Edited for time though.

Cory M

I'll have to make sure to set the Tivo since Speed only likes to play roadracing before noon during the week.

Congo

Where is the link? A story came out earlier this year than BMW was going to offer Schumacher $1 billion or so to drive for them in F1.

I wish Schumacher would drive a privateer P1 at Le Mans next year. Perhaps the new Pescarolo with the new 5.5 liter Judd V-10.

hacker-pschorr

Link is behind a members only pay site - so I copied the data.