Di Resta set to work with Mercedes F1 team

Paul Di Resta is returning to DTM with Mercedes this year, having been dropped by Force India at the end of last year.

The new deal opens up the possibility of him working with the Mercedes F1 team, his recent experience making him an obvious candidate for simulator running or even testing. Di Resta says that his potential involvement will be discussed soon.

“Hopefully I can be part of the Mercedes-Benz GP team,” he said when asked by this writer. “I’ve yet to see what that is. We’ll have a meeting I think with Toto [Wolff] and senior members, but more importantly certainly at this point I want to focus on my racing and getting myself up to speed in this championship I’m going to be taking part in.

“Over the next few weeks we can start to look at how much time I have, what I can maybe give to Mercedes, and what they can give to me, and we can do a combination. Everybody’s happy and they’ll all on the same thinking path, and that’s why the deal was so good and why we could agree such good terms. And hopefully I’ll have a successful year.”