Schumacher is confident for the future

"A few days to enjoy and disappear with the family will be good. We’ll have a nice week and then I’ll reappear fresh and relaxed at the race in South Korea. There we hopefully will make another step forward because in Japan it ran quite well. Naturally we want to gather as many data and information as possible to be prepared better next year," he wrote on his personal website.

"I have said it often: I want to build up something here together with Mercedes and I am confident that we’ll manage that as the support and the opportunities of Mercedes are really strong. Sometimes not everything comes together as planned from the technical point of view however our link is strong enough to allow things being criticised if they don’t run as expected - and this refers to all of us. Important is that we stay united within the team. And I am very confident about this," he added.