The future is open for Mick Schumacher, as is well known, there will not be a regular place in Formula 1 for the 23-year-old in the coming year. The next possible offer seems to be a job as a replacement driver. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff emphasizes again how much he would like the German to be in the team.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has confirmed his interest in Mick Schumacher as a Formula 1 reserve driver for the coming season. “I really like Mick and I like the family, how they raised their children with this incredibly famous name. I think he deserves a chance,” said Wolff in the Formula 1 podcast “Beyond The Grid”. Things can “run against you in your first few years in Formula 1. Then he was under pressure to have to deliver, that doesn’t help. Formula 1 is brutal,” said Wolff.
After two years, the 23-year-old Schumacher lost his regular cockpit with the US team Haas to Nico Hülkenberg. Wolff has repeatedly expressed his appreciation for the son of record world champion Michael Schumacher. “It can be good, maybe in a way, to be out for a year as a third driver, similar to what Daniel (Ricciardo, ed.) does, to reassess himself and then put himself in a better position and hopefully find a place again.” After leaving McLaren in 2023, the Australian Ricciardo will work as a test driver for his former Red Bull racing team.
Regular drivers at Mercedes are Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. After the departure of the reserve driver Nyck de Vries (regular driver Alpha Tauri) and Stoffel Vandoorne (reserve driver Aston Martin), the Silver Arrows need a new development driver. “He’s always impressed me as a personality,” said Wolff about Mick Schumacher, who won the Formula 2 and Formula 3 junior classes.