German Mick Schumacher, son of Michael, won the Formula 2 title, the antechamber of F1, on Sunday in Bahrain, before being promoted to the premier class next season in the American team Haas.
The 21-year-old driver only finished the last race of the season in 18th place, a result enough to be crowned with 14 points ahead of his last rival, Briton Callum Ilott, 10th on the circuit. of Sakhir.
"I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment, it's going to take a few days ... I'm just very happy and grateful," he reacted once he got out of his car.
“No matter what the outcome of this race is, we are champions and that's what people will remember.”
Mick Schumacher in Bahrain this weekend.
“Schumi Jr” finishes with honors a key week in his career: his promotion to F1 in 2021, expected for weeks, with a contract “of several years” with Haas (powered by Ferrari, of which he is part of the young pilots), was formalized on Wednesday.
To prepare, he will participate with the American team in free practice 1 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Friday and in the end-of-season tests at the same Yas Marina circuit on December 15.
To protect himself from the media he ran under his mother's name
Born on March 22, 1999, Mick now races under his last name, but he first protected himself by registering in karting in 2008 under that of his mother, Betsch, then as Mick Junior.
The German made his single-seater debut in 2015 in the German F4 Championship, before advancing to European F3 in 2017 and winning the title there in 2018.
He joined the Ferrari Driver Academy (following in the footsteps of Michael Schumacher, who rose to fame in red in the early 2000s) at the same time as F2 in 2019, and was therefore crowned the following year.
It was surrounded by the pundits of Scuderia Mattia Binotto and Laurent Mekies, as well as the omnipresent Sabine Kehm, who has been managing his father's press relations since the 2000s and now his family, that the young man celebrated his title. Sunday.
Michael Schumacher, seven-time F1 world champion (1994-1995, 2000-2004) played his last GP in 2012 with Mercedes.
He has not been seen since his skiing accident in December 2013 and almost nothing is known about his state of health.
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