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Michael Schumacher might have retired from F1 for the second time, but his association with Mercedes doesn’t end there as he will now work with Mercedes to develop future technologies for its road car division.
Michael, in his second stint in F1, was with Mercedes for three years and the car manufacturer has retained him in a ‘long-term partnership’. Schumacher is expected to take to focus on Mercedes’ ‘Intelligent Drive’ safety systems, while also doubling up as an ambassador for them.
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Schumacher said: “The future interests me much more than the present and past, during my Formula 1 time I always believed that you must not allow yourself to rest on your laurels, but that you must continuously try to improve. In doing so I was very often able to rely on the help of all the technologies available to me in the car and use them to my advantage. That is why I am a declared supporter of driving assistance systems both in the racing car and in the road-going car.
“I wanted to have a clearly defined remit within the new partnership and I find it very exciting to be able to contribute towards further developments and the optimisation of safety together with the inventor of the car.”
Dr. Joachim Schmidt, executive vice-president of Mercedes-Benz cars, sales and marketing, was full of praise for the German driver and his decision to join Mercedes in helping them improve safety on the roads concluded it was understandable the company needed to keep Schumacher on board.
He said: “We are proud that Michael Schumacher, the most successful and best-known racing driver in the world, is again joining us as our partner, right from the time when he was a Mercedes-Benz junior and of course in the last three years as a driver in our Formula 1 team, Michael Schumacher has always been committed to our company’s projects. This is why it is only logical for both sides to pool their expertise and know-how and to use them, for instance, for enhancing driver assistance systems and thus improve safety on the roads within a partnership.”
Source: ESPN
