Schumacher will be absent from Formula One's season-opening race for the first time since 1991 on Sunday.
Seven-times World champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to make a Formula One comeback with Mercedes next year at the age of 41, the team said on Wednesday. Mercedes Motorsports vice-president Norbert Haug told reporters in a telephone news conference that a contract was signed on Tuesday.
The world champion had initially identified McLaren as Ferrari's main Formula One rivals this season.
Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has said that he is ready to silence his critics after failing to set the 2010-11 Formula One season alight on his return to the sport with Mercedes.
A Michael Schumacher comeback would be good for Formula One, Mercedes Grand Prix chief executive Nick Fry said on Thursday. Mercedes, who have taken over the title-winning Brawn team, have been linked in media reports with the retired German great now that Britain's world champion Jenson Button has moved from Brawn to McLaren.
And have also offered him an immediate opt-out clause if he wins another Formula One title.
Michael Schumacher will have a five-place penalty on the starting grid for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix after an unscheduled gearbox change, his Mercedes team said on Sunday.
A self-confessed Formula One fan, Sachin Tendulkar met seven-time world champion and 'dear friend' Michael Schumacher at the Mercedes team building ahead of this afternoon's inaugural Indian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Ferrari driver's main aim is to prevent Fernando Alonso from chalking up a fifth successive win.
Seven-times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has agreed a one-year deal to come out of retirement and drive for Mercedes in 2010, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the 40-year-old German, who won his titles with Benetton and Ferrari and retired at the end of 2006, signed the deal at the team's offices in Brackley, England, after a month of talks.
French doctors treating Michael Schumacher for brain injuries sustained in a ski fall said the seven-times Formula One world champion was in slightly better condition on Tuesday after an overnight operation, but that he remained fragile.
His Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa joins him on the front row while Briton Jenson Button, in a Honda, and Renault's world champion Fernando Alonso line up together on the second row.
Sebastien Vettel kept Michael Schumacher in his thoughts on Tuesday as Formula One returned to the track after a long winter break with the German great still in a coma one month after a skiing accident.
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher could come out of retirement to drive for Ferrari next year if the FIA (International Automobile Federation) governing body allows the team to run a third car. The 40-year-old Schumacher, who retired in 2006, cancelled plans for a temporary return to the sport earlier this month because of fitness concerns.
Schumacher will test in Jerez on Dec. 15 and 16. Ferrari's new car is not due to be formally unveiled until the second half of January.
Michael Schumacher came out of retirement to set the fastest lap in testing for Ferrari at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya.
Ferrari's Michael Schumacher will write another extraordinary chapter in the Formula One record books if he wins his eighth title this year.
Retired seven times world champion Michael Schumacher believes Ferrari's new F2008 car gives them a good chance of retaining their constructors' title.
Only six cars started after seven teams boycotted the race because of safety concerns.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher joins FIA president Max Mosley on an elite panel that would distribute $ 60 million of the $ 100 million fine to be paid by McLaren-Mercedes following the 'spy-gate' scandal that rocked motorsports last year.
Rising Indian driver Jaden R Pariat has been invited to the Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA) selection trials.
Michael Schumacher retired at Suzuka with an engine failure.
Michael Schumacher apologised to Rubens Barrichello by text on Thursday for almost forcing his former Ferrari team mate into a wall at this month's Hungarian Grand Prix.
The retired 38-year-old German was following Ferrari's progress at a pre-season testing in Barcelona.
Michael Schumacher said farewell to Formula One with a battling seventh place for Mercedes at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday before an embrace for newly-crowned triple champion Sebastian Vettel.
Ralf Schumacher left the San Rafaele hospital in Milan today after crashing his Williams-BMW in testing at Monza.
If the German wins the title, he could then walk away and Massa would simply slot in alongside Raikkonen at Ferrari.
The F1 ace won the award for the third time. Croatian Alpine skiing star Janica Kostelic was voted the European Sportswoman of the Year for 2002.
Formula One World champion Sebastian Vettel hailed Michael Schumacher as his hero and inspiration as the German great prepared for a final farewell to the sport at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The German said Barcelona was a circuit that showed a car's true potential, particularly in terms of aerodynamic performance.
Michael Schumacher believes he can turn his record eighth French Grand Prix win into an eighth Formula One championship.
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