The Mercedes GP Petronas Formula 1 team confirmed Thursday that veteran Nick Heidfeld will join the team as Reserve Race Driver and Test Driver for the 2010 Formula One season.

Heidfeld will therefore complete the driver line-up with race drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.

Like Michael Schumacher before him, Heidfeld is another former Mercedes Junior driver who returns to his motorsport roots. After winning the 1997 German Formula 3 Championship, as a junior driver supported by Mercedes, Nick tested a McLaren Mercedes Formula One car for the first time.

Nick was the McLaren Mercedes test driver for the 1998 and 1999 seasons, during which time he had two successful years in Formula 3000, as runner-up in 1998 and winning the Formula 3000 Championship.

Mercedes will now have a tough time arguing that it is not an all-German team…




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