Michael Schumacher’s son Mick may very well be driving a McLaren this season ought to the System One crew want a stand-in for race regulars Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Fierce rivals of Ferrari nice Michael throughout his golden years on the Italian crew, McLaren mentioned on Wednesday they might be capable of name on Mick’s companies as a part of a take care of engine supplier Mercedes.
The 23-year-old German joined Mercedes as a reserve to seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton and George Russell after shedding his race seat with Ferrari-powered Haas on the finish of final season.
“Welcome to the household, Mick,” McLaren mentioned on Twitter, stating additionally that new crew principal Andrea Stella was beforehand efficiency engineer to Michael Schumacher at Ferrari.
McLaren had a reserve-sharing settlement with Renault-owned Alpine final season, when Australian Piastri was Alpine’s third driver.
McLaren then received a contract dispute with Alpine for Piastri to race for them this yr.
Mercedes and Williams shared Nyck de Vries as reserve final season, with the Dutch driver now as a consequence of race with Pink Bull-owned AlphaTauri.
McLaren even have 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou contracted to a reserve position the place the Spaniard’s schedules permit. Ten of the 23 scheduled F1 grands prix conflict with IndyCar.