Components One rookie Mick Schumacher hopes he can have the prospect to do extra promotional runs along with his father’s well-known automobiles in 2021.
Schumacher is the son of seven-time world champion Michael. He drove his father’s 2004 Ferrari earlier than final 12 months’s Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello, as a part of the celebrations across the group’s one thousandth Components One race.
He additionally drove his father’s 1994 Benetton on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit earlier than the 2017 Belgian Grand Prix.
This 12 months he has stepped as much as drive for Ferrari engine buyer Haas for his first F1 season, which means alternatives for such demonstrations is perhaps extra restricted throughout the 12 months.
When requested if he may need an opportunity to do extra in 2021, he informed ESPN: “These automobiles had been actually wonderful to drive, so I’d be completely happy to leap again into one, particularly the V10s. So yeah, fingers crossed.”
This 12 months’s Belgian Grand Prix would be the thirtieth anniversary of his father’s F1 debut.
The Schumacher-Ferrari hyperlink continues at this time, with the Haas rookie nonetheless part of the Italian group’s younger driver academy.
Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto mentioned he anticipates a tough rookie season for Schumacher at a group which completed ninth within the championship final 12 months. Schumacher mentioned he sees his time with Haas as a chance to indicate everybody what he’s able to.
“There’s not a strict goal immediately which has been set by them to me, however actually there’s targets I wish to obtain and I wish to do. If I will impress and present them I am making an attempt to do the whole lot attainable to convey the group and the automobile and myself from the place I’m now to an ideal place on the finish of the 12 months, I suppose then folks could be extra attentive to what I am doing.”
Speaking about Ferrari’s assist of his profession, he mentioned: “Clearly it has been very useful for me to have the ability to bounce again on the knowledge and expertise they’ve in Components One to attempt to be taught from them and use the talents for myself in racing, and in F2 particularly final 12 months.
“I really feel like the good assist I get yearly and every single day, from them, has introduced me to the place the place I’m now.”