Formula One: Mercedes to discuss Schumacher deal

SILVERSTONE: Ross Brawn has revealed that Mercedes will consider its driver line-up for 2012 ‘later in the season’. Michael Schumacher is under contract to stay alongside Nico Rosberg next year, but there has been speculation that the seven time world champion might call time on his mixed return to Formula One at the end of 2011. “He has a three-year contract with Mercedes, and we are very happy with him,” team boss Brawn told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “But if he feels that he doesn’t want to do it anymore, then we need to talk about it. You can’t force somebody to do something.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2011.