After a troubled test for Force India, Ralf Schumacher has said he is not interested in a race-seat with the team.

Schumacher went of track twice during his test, damaging the car in the process, and finishing bottom of the timesheet. With other F1 veterans Giancarlo Fisichella and Franck Montagny also testing for Force India this week, Schumacher has said that he is not interested in racing for Force India.

Ralf Schumacher has dropped hints that he would like to drive for McLaren in 2008. “It’s not secret that the seat at McLaren-Mercedes is by far the most coveted there is,” he explained. “Every driver out there in the market would love to sit in their super car.”

Ralf Schumacher is sticking to his guns by claiming he will still be racing in Formula 1 next season. The German has retired from his current team, Toyota, and has yet to sign a deal with any other team. However, Schumacher is adamant that he will remain in F1 for another season.

Ralf Schumacher is aiming to finish his Toyota career on a high by finishing in the points at the last race of the season in Brazil. If he does manage to win some points, it will be for only the fourth time this season.

Ralf Schumacher has ended months of speculation by confirming that he will be leaving Toyota at the end of the 2007 season. There have been rumours over Schumacher’s career with Toyota for a while, with many believing that he would be pushed out before the end of the season thanks to his poor qualifying performances that oft saw him eliminated in Q1.

Rumours over the future of Ralf Schumacher continue over the revelation that the German driver has been invited to race in the German touring car series, DTM.

Hans-Werner Aufrecht, chairman of the organising body the ITR, has said he could see a on-track duel between former Formula 1 drivers Mika Hakkinen and Ralf Schumacher.

Ralf Schumacher has not done his contract hopes any good over the Turkish Grand Prix weekend. After an excellent Friday which saw a competitive car and Ralf finishing third quickest, he was knocked out in the second round of qualifying, starting a surprisingly low 18th on the grid.

Rolf Schumacher, father of Ralf Schumacher, has said he is confident his son will remain in Formula 1 for the 2008 season. There has been much speculation over the future of Ralf Schumacher – recently, the German driver was linked with Toro Rosso however Gerhard Berger has now announced his 2008 line-up, leaving Schumacher out in the cold.

Toyota test driver Franck Montagny has said that Schumacher’s lack of form this season has also affected him. The French driver explained that because of Schumacher’s lack of form, most of the private testing miles in the TF107 have been assigned to Schumacher, leaving Montagny to spend most of his time watching from the sidelines.

Following mounting speculation about the future of driver Ralf Schumacher, the Toyota team have said that his form is partly their fault. The rumours were not helped on Monday when Pascal Vasselon, technical director at Toyota, admitted that the “general grip” problem which bugged Schumacher at Monaco was down to “no obvious limitation of one parameter.”