Nico Rosberg will race for Mercedes next season, said the team that won the Formula One championship as Brawn this year.
Rosberg has spent the last four years competing for Williams. Yet to win a race in 70 starts, the 24-year-old son of Finland’s 1982 champion Keke finished seventh overall this season. Mercedes took over the team last week.
Brawn, who emerged from the remains of the Honda team, won both titles in their debut season but Britain’s world champion Jenson Button has joined McLaren while Brazilian Rubens Barrichello has taken Rosberg’s place at Williams.
Mercedes have yet to name their second driver, amid media speculation that the seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher could be tempted out of retirement at the age of 41. The National
Rosberg said: “I am really happy to be a part of the Silver Arrows relaunch in 2010 as a driver for Mercedes.
“No other brand in Formula One can look back on such along and successful tradition in motor racing. I am very proud that Iwill now drive for the new Mercedes team and work with Ross Brawn.
“I am more motivated than ever and can hardly wait to start testingwith the new Silver Arrow and for the first race of the new season atBahrain in March.”
Rosberg has been singled out as the perfect signing byprincipal Ross Brawn, who guided the team named after him to thedrivers’ and constructors’ titles in their debut season before sellinga controlling interest to Mercedes. Daily Record
Norbert Haug, Vice President Mercedes-Benz Motorsport, added: “I saw Nico racing karts alongside Lewis Hamilton and later in the support programme of the DTM events - I have known him since he was a young boy. Early on it was obvious that he would make his way as a race driver and we are glad that after four years with Williams he will now be one of our drivers at Mercedes.
“It makes our re-start even nicer, that we have as talented and sympathetic a driver as Nico in our line-up. Nico has positive ambitions, we have positive ambitions and together we want to achieve a great deal. I am really looking forward to working with him.”
Mercedes have yet to reveal who will partner Rosberg for the German company’s first season as a works team since 1955. Formula 1
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