Michael Schumacher might retain a Mercedes role – Formula 1 news
Michael Schumacher has hinted that he might stay at Mercedes in some other role after he retired as a F1 driver from the team this Sunday.
“Obviously I will be in discussions with Mercedes to see what we're going to do together,” said Schumacher. “There are good ideas and good options. I'm pretty sure my calendar will easily be filled up.”
Schumacher said that he has been badly waiting for the days after his F1 career.
“I've certainly been counting down the days to the life I have next to Formula 1, and I look forward to this life,” he said. “I don't have concrete future plans. I obviously have partners I've been working with during the F1 time and I'll keep on working
with them in the time after.”
He added that he is planning to spend a lot of time with his family and if he is still left with time after that then he might consider his options about returning to the sport in a role other than a driver.
This is the second retirement of the driver’s career and according to him will be a final one. His first retirement had come at the end of 2006 when he was driving for Ferrari and also fighting for the championship against Fernando Alonso.
At that time, Schumacher had returned to Ferrari as an advisor and was also taking part in some German motorcycle races. In 2009, when Ferrari’s Felipe Massa suffered serious injuries in an accident, the German driver was requested to drive in his place
but he was unable to do so because of a neck injury sustained during a motorcycling accident.
Schumacher went through the last race of his career in the Brazilian GP this weekend. He qualified for the fourteenth position and finished the race in seventh place behind the triple world champion Sebastian Vettel. He had also allowed Vettel to overtake
him during the race.
Schumacher has retired after enjoying a long and remarkable career spanned over more than two decades. He secured seven world championships but failed to achieve an eighth one which was his main aim to join Mercedes for another three years.
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