The living legend Michael Schumacher is returning to Formula 1 next season to drive for Mercedes, announced the German carmaker on Wednesday.
The 40 year-old, 7 times drivers champion who retired in 2006 has agreed on a $10 million one-year contract and will be driving in the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix on March 14.
Schumacher will join countryman Nico Rosberg at Mercedes who took over Brawn GP team who won the constructors and drivers championship last season.
Rosberg, signed for Mercedes after the final grand prix of the season in Abu Dhabi, and said to the German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung: “I have no idea if it (a comeback) is true or not, but if he did join that would be an absolutely fantastic move.”
Schumacher, who won five of his world titles with Ferrari, was almost going to drive for them in August after Felipe Massa was injured but this was not possible due to a neck injury that the German suffered in a motorcycle accident earlier this year.
Schumacher has now fully recovered from his neck injury and is very close to a much anticipated comeback to the Formula 1 which he dominated for such a long time.
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