Michael Schumacher will not race for Lotus in final two races of the Formula One season, confirms agent Michael Schumacher, the retired seven-time Formula One champion, turned down an offer from Lotus to drive the final two races of the season as a replacement for Kimi Raikkonen. Schumacher retired for the second time at the end of the last season, having failed to win a race for Mercedes in a three-year comeback. A report in Bild newspaper was confirmed by Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm, who says the 44-year-old was happy in his life away from the sport, regardless of the fact he would still be competitive were he to return to the track. "Michael's performance against Nico [Rosberg last year] and Nico's performance against Lewis (Hamilton this year) made a lot of people aware of how good Michael still was," she said on Wednesday. Plus, he is still very fit. But he just feels so good in his new life. Raikkonen will miss the last two races in the United States and Brazil after back surgery. He will be driving next season for Ferrari, one of Schumacher's former teams for which he won five consecutive championships.