Brawn: Schumacher happy just to test

Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher is not likely to try to make a competitive race drive comeback in F1 according to former Ferrari mastermind Ross Brawn. Schumacher's former technical director and master strategist is now team principal at Honda and believes that the German great is happy simply to continue testing.

"Michael loves driving a car," Brawn told Autosport. "At the moment that's what he's doing and it's what he loves. Knowing him as I

Ross Brawn

do, I don't think there's a natural extension from driving a car to racing a car. I can see why he enjoys that, because he just enjoys driving, developing a car and being a part of that process."

"I don't know if he misses the racing because that's a different thing, but he just likes going fast," Brawn added. "And he loves the interaction with the engineers and making a car better. So I can see why even a testing role would be quite fulfilling for him."