Schumacher won’t retire

Just when everyone thought he might retire, Michael Schumacher is talking to Ferrari about staying on after 2006. Asked whether team boss Jean Todt had talked to him about eventual replacements, the 36-year-old German told the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper on Thursday that the main discussion had been about his own future. "To tell you the truth, Jean at the moment is talking with me about extending my contract," he said. "Sometimes we talk about drivers, but in very general terms." "I don't think Michael will stop in 2006," Germany's Bild quoted his father Rolf as saying recently. "I have a feeling he will carry on."