03/01/2020 - 15:32
- Clarín.com
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Mick Schumacher anticipated his pass to Formula 1 for next year in a video interview published by his Formula 2 Prema team.
"The question of whether I enter Formula 1 in 2021 is raised," said the son of multiple world champion Michael Schumacher.
The 22-year-old starts this year the preseason tests in Bahrain his second participation in the Formula 2 championship. But the stated objective of Mick Schumacher is the top category.
Mick is already preparing at the Ferrari Drivers Academy - Photo DPA
Count on this with the cooperation of Ferrari. The team for which his father won five of his seven world titles a year ago admitted Mick Schumacher in his Pilot Academy.
"We tried to take a lot of experience from Ferrari, the Pilot Academy and the Scuderia Ferrari," said Mick Schumacher, who wore in the interview a red polo shirt of the Maranello brand with the emblem of young talents on the rise and a cap red
They always give him one or two tips, "on how and where I should position myself so that things go well in the end," Mick Schumacher revealed.
He was already allowed to drive a test for the Italian team last year. "A Schumacher. A Ferrari," the team had tweeted in April. Mick Schumacher was behind the wheel of a red racing car on the same circuit of the Bahrain desert where the participants of Formula 2 are now making their preseason.
Michael, in Monza, those golden years.
That test with Ferrari Formula 1 was useful for all his performance last year in the second category, said Mick Schumacher. The F-2 season ended in the twelfth place, after having won the European F-3 championship the previous year.
"So far it has always been so that things were finally going much better for me in my second year, because I felt more comfortable in the car and in the series," said Michael Schumacher's son. At the moment, he added, he has that same feeling in Formula 2.
(DPA source)
