For Mick Schumacher there is no space in Formula 1 in 2025 and the way back also seems to be blocked in the medium term. The 25-year-old concentrates fully on the long-distance World Cup WEC-but has not yet buried his dream of the premier class.
“My dream is my dream,” said Mick Schumacher in a digital media round of his racing team Alpine, where too RTL/NTV and sport.de Participation.
“But when I’m sitting in the car, I am 100 percent there. That means when I’m in the WEC environment and racing, my thoughts are 100 percent there – in the simulator, in the meeting,” emphasized, “emphasized the Earlier Formula 1 pilot at the same time to add full and all long-distance series.
His dream of Formula 1 continues to live for him, “in the moments when I have free time,” said Schumacher.
The 25-year-old debuted in the Haas team in the motorsport king class in 2021. At the end of 2022, however, Schumacher from the then Haas team boss Günther Steiner no longer received a new contract, Nico Hülkenberg took his place.
Mick Schumacher: No more things
After his end as a regular driver, Schumacher hired at Mercedes as a replacement and simulator driver. He also filled out the job in the previous season – parallel to his commitment as a WEC driver at Alpine, where he started in early 2024.
In the press round, Schumacher commented on his mammoth program last season. “It was of course a very tough year, we had a relatively many weekends back to back, where we went from one race to the next,” he alluded to the full F1 calendar.
“Even if you could say, the reserve driver doesn’t do that much – it is still long days,” said Schumacher: “I was relatively tired at the end of the year.”
In 2025 he could concentrate more on the WEC, the time of the “half-neck” was over. “This is more relaxed in that sense. I can just take the time to drive more simulator, alpine to help with cars more in the development.”