The Formula One season is just three week's away and it marks the start of Michael Schumacher's final season with Mercedes AMG. The German 7 time's world champion came out of retirement at the start of the 2010 F1 season but has failed to find the form that made him so successful while driving fr Ferrari during the early 00's.
Michael Schumacher has failed to match the pace of his younger team-mate Nico Rosberg who joined the team in 2010. Mercedes will be hoping that this season they will be able to challenge McLaren, Ferrari and RedBull. Last year Mercedes finished 4th in the championship for the second year in a row.
The team had endured very tough challenge's since Mercedes took over the 2009 champion's. Nico Rosberg has a long term deal to race with Mercedes, however it id currently to early to say whether or not Schumacher will have his contract extended beyond this season.
I believe that Schumacher will hang up his gloves and helmet at the end of the season however I think that he will stay on at Mercedes in a consultancy role similar role that he held at Ferrari following his retirement from his first F1 career at the end of the 2006 F1 season.
So far Mercedes have shown great reliability during preseason testing and they ran their new car the W03 for the first time in Barcelona this week and racked up many miles. Once again I will be updating the blog with reports about the upcoming final pre season test that gets underway in Barcelona on Thursday.
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