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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER JOINS MERCEDES GP PETRONAS

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Stuttgart/Brackley, Germany/United Kingdom, Dec 23, 2009

The MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team can confirm today that seven-times Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher will make his racing return in 2010 with the Silver Arrows team.
With seven Drivers’ World Championships, 248 Grand Prix starts, 91 victories, 154 podium finishes and 68 tangency positions, the 40-year old German needs no introduction mass an illustrious and record-breaking Formula One occupation from 1991 to 2006 at the Jordan, Benetton and Ferrari teams.

Michael’s convey to racing with MERCEDES GP PETRONAS sees his convey to Mercedes-Benz Motorsport where he began his racing apprenticeship as part of the Junior Programme in 1990, racing in Group C sports cars and DTM, and sees archangel renew his partnership with Ross Brawn with whom he won every heptad of his World Championships.

Today’s declaration confirms the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS driver line-up for the 2010 season with archangel partnering his compatriot, 24 assemblage old Nico Rosberg, in the Silver Arrows cars.

Michael Schumacher: “MERCEDES GP PETRONAS represents a newborn challenge for me both in a sporting and a individualized context. It is a newborn chapter in my racing career and I am really looking forward to working with my old friend Ross Brawn and my companions from my days with the Mercedes Junior Programme. I am convinced that unitedly we will be involved in the fisticuffs for the Formula 1 World Championship incoming year and I am already looking forward to getting backwards onto the race track. For me, this partnership closes the circle. Mercedes supported me for so many years when I began my Formula 1 career and today I can hopefully give something backwards to the sort with the star.”

Nico Rosberg:“It is strange that archangel is returning to Formula One and module be my team-mate at MERCEDES GP PETRONAS. It’s a enthusiastic contest for me to be up against one of the prizewinning drivers of every time. I’m sure that we module modify a very strong partnership as he module have forfeited none of his speed! It is also enthusiastic news for our sport and the fans.”

Ross Brawn, Team Principal of MERCEDES GP PETRONAS: “I am delighted that we can confirm today that Michael will make his much-anticipated return to Formula One next year and drive for our MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team. As seven-time World Champion, Michael’s unpaid achievement in Formula One speaks for itself and I am hunting forward to working with him again. With the completion of our driver line-up, I conceive that we today have the most elating partnership in Formula One with Michael and Nico, who provide the perfect intermixture of talent, experience, speed and youth. We can today invoke our flooded attention to the preparations for the newborn season and everyone at MERCEDES GP PETRONAS is extremely excited about the challenge ahead. With the assets and hold in our team provided by Daimler, Aabar and our newborn denomination partner Petronas, and with two such elating drivers, we have every of the building blocks in place to have added successful season in 2010.”

Norbert Haug, Vice-President of Mercedes-Benz Motorsports:“In Apr 1991, when I had been in calculate of the Mercedes-Benz Motorsport programme for meet six months, archangel was standing beside me on the balcony digit evening. Without the slightest doubt, he said in a baritone voice: “It’s most instance that I got into Formula 1”. archangel had meet overturned 22 eld of geezerhood and four months later, he prefabricated his debut at Spa in a Jordan. Mercedes-Benz helped him to this point and the rest is history: seven World Championship titles, more than some racing driver, 91 Grand Prix wins, more than some racing driver. archangel has more of everything than every other driver. As part of the Mercedes Junior Programme, archangel had raced in Group C sports cars and competed in a some DTM races. Ross Brawn, then our opponent at Jaguar, quickly realised Michael’s talent and they went on to win all seven of his Drivers’ World Championship titles together at Benetton and Ferrari. Our sporting ambition has ever been that archangel should drive again where his professed career had started and archangel knew that. We often joked most it after the races and discussed the prospect seriously several times during the last 14 eld in Formula 1. It didn’t hap in 1995, it didn’t hap in 1998 and it didn’t hap in 2005. I am delighted that it will now hap in 2010. I am rattling such looking nervy to working with archangel and everybody at Mercedes-Benz and technologist extends a rattling warm welcome to our ‘apprentice’ of 19 eld ago. That apprentice is now the most successful racing utility of all time.”




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MERCEDES GP1

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Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 21, 2009

Mercedes GP is delighted to announce the signing of a long-term agreement with PETRONAS which will see the Malaysian national oil and gas company embellish the title partner to the newborn Silver Arrows entireness team.

From 2010, the new aggroup will contend in the FIA Formula One World Championship as the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team and will circularize the distinctive PETRONAS branding crossways the car and aggroup liveries.
Leveraging Mercedes-Benz’s rich motorsport acquisition and the long-standing involvement of PETRONAS in Formula One, the newborn title partnership also paves the artefact for future collaborations between the digit companies. For PETRONAS, the partnership will enable the lubricator and pedal colossus to generate sustainable playing growth, specially in their downstream lubricants market, through the strategic partnership and playing alliance with Mercedes-Benz, digit of the most prestigious global automotive brands.
The Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team’s competition for 2010 will make its road entry in its new livery at Valencia on 1 February 2010 for the first of the pre-season tests aweigh of the 2010 Formula One season.

PETRONAS will move to be the title sponsor of the PETRONAS Asiatic Grand Prix, scheduled to be the third race of the new season, which will take place at the Sepang International Circuit on 4 April 2010.

Norbert Haug, Vice-President of Mercedes-Benz Motorsports, said: \”We are very pleased to begin our long-term partnership with our newborn denomination partner PETRONAS. Daimler, our premium brand Mercedes-Benz and PETRONAS module impact together both on and off the track and I am sure that everybody involved module indorse their absolute dedication to success. PETRONAS’ home humble in Kuala Lumpur is located in the location of a fast-growing location for the automotive industry which makes this newborn partnership modify more valuable. Within the limits of the newborn Formula One resource restrictions, the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team module be well positioned to achieve our goals. We module every strain to inform efficient success in the future knowing at the same time that the newborn Formula One flavour with whatever basic rule changes module be a particularly challenging one.\”
Ross Brawn, Team Principal of the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team commented: “Everyone at Mercedes GP is delighted to support our long-term commendation with PETRONAS and we look nervy to working intimately with our newborn relation in the future. The collaboration of the premium automotive brand Mercedes-Benz and a company as prestigious as PETRONAS gives our aggroup a strange base from which to attain our ambitions of competing at the top level of Formula One and antiquity on the success of 2009 which saw the aggroup attain the Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships. Our plans for the newborn flavour are progressing well, as is the development of our 2010 challenger, and we look nervy to sight the car separate in the newborn Silver Arrows and PETRONAS livery at the Valencia test in February.”


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Mercedes GP Petronas 2010

Mercedes-Benz officials have fresh confirmed that the special start circumstance of the new Mercedes GP Petronas F1 single-seater will be organised at Mercedes-Benz Museum in Unterturkheim, at the end of the next month. Moreover, Michael Schumacher, the latest and most-awaited addition to the drivers’ lineup of the new Formula 1 team, will get behind the wheel of the car he’ll drive in 2010, for the first time, on February 10th, when the metropolis track FIA tests commence.

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