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Stuttgart/Brackley, Germany/United Kingdom, Dec 23, 2009 - The MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team can confirm today that seven-times Formula One World Champion archangel Schumacher will make his racing return in 2010 with the Silver Arrows team.
With heptad Drivers’ World Championships, 248 Grand Prix starts, 91 victories, 154 podium finishes and 68 tangency positions, the 40-year older German needs no introduction following an respected and record-breaking Formula One career from 1991 to 2006 at the Jordan, Benetton and Ferrari teams.
Michael’s return to racing with MERCEDES GP PETRONAS sees his return to Mercedes-Benz Motorsport where he began his racing apprenticeship as part of the Junior Programme in 1990, racing in Group C sports cars and DTM, and sees archangel renew his partnership with doc Brawn with whom he won all heptad of his World Championships.
Today’s announcement confirms the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS driver line-up for the 2010 season with archangel partnering his compatriot, 24 assemblage older Nico Rosberg, in the Silver Arrows cars.
COMMENTSMichael Schumacher: "MERCEDES GP PETRONAS represents a newborn challenge for me both in a sporting and a personal context. It is a newborn chapter in my racing occupation and I am rattling hunting forward to working with my older someone Ross Brawn and my companions from my days with the Mercedes Junior Programme. I am convinced that together we will be involved in the fight for the Formula 1 World Championship incoming year and I am already hunting forward to getting back onto the race track. For me, this partnership closes the circle. Mercedes supported me for so many years when I began my Formula 1 occupation and today I crapper hopefully provide something back to the brand with the star.\"
Nico Rosberg: \"It is fantastic that archangel is returning to Formula One and module be my team-mate at MERCEDES GP PETRONAS. It’s a great challenge for me to be up against one of the best drivers of all time. I’m sure that we module form a very brawny partnership as he module have lost none of his speed! It is also great news for our climb and the fans.\"
Ross Brawn, Team Principal of MERCEDES GP PETRONAS: \"I am delighted that we crapper hold today that archangel will attain his much-anticipated return to Formula One next assemblage and drive for our MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team. As seven-time World Champion, Michael’s outstanding record in Formula One speaks for itself and I am hunting forward to working with him again. With the completion of our driver line-up, I conceive that we now hit the most elating partnership in Formula One with archangel and Nico, who wage the amend mix of talent, experience, speed and youth. We crapper now invoke our full attention to the preparations for the newborn flavour and everyone at MERCEDES GP PETRONAS is extremely excited about the challenge ahead. With the investment and hold in our aggroup provided by Daimler, Aabar and our newborn denomination partner Petronas, and with two much elating drivers, we hit all of the building blocks in locate to hit another successful flavour in 2010.\"
Norbert Haug, Vice-President of Mercedes-Benz Motorsports: \"In Apr 1991, when I had been in charge of the Mercedes-Benz Motorsport programme for meet six months, archangel was standing beside me on the balcony one evening. Without the slightest doubt, he said in a low voice: “It’s most instance that I got into Formula 1”. archangel had meet turned 22 eld of age and quaternary months later, he made his debut at Spa in a Jordan. Mercedes-Benz helped him to this saucer and the rest is history: heptad World Championship titles, more than some racing driver, 91 Grand Prix wins, more than some racing driver. archangel has more of everything than every another driver. As part of the Mercedes Junior Programme, archangel had raced in Group C sports cars and competed in a few DTM races. doc Brawn, then our opponent at Jaguar, quickly realised Michael’s talent and they went on to win all heptad of his Drivers’ World Championship titles together at Benetton and Ferrari. Our sporting desire has ever been that archangel should drive again where his professional career had started and archangel knew that. We ofttimes joked most it after the races and discussed the prospect seriously several times during the last 14 eld in Formula 1. It didn’t hap in 1995, it didn’t hap in 1998 and it didn’t hap in 2005. I am delighted that it will now hap in 2010. I am rattling much looking forward to employed with archangel and everybody at Mercedes-Benz and technologist extends a rattling warm welcome to our ‘apprentice’ of 19 eld ago. That novice is now the most flourishing racing driver of all time.\"
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