Now that Sauber/Audi has filled the last cockpit for the 2025 season, Mick Schumacher’s Formula 1 dream seems to have finally come to an end. Or not? Former F1 world champion Damon Hill has now made people sit up and take notice with some advice for the German.
Damon Hill used to duel on the track with Mick Schumacher’s father, Formula 1 record world champion Michael Schumacher, today the 1996 world champion gives the son of his rival at the time a tip.
The 25-year-old “kept showing flashes of potential” during his active time in Formula 1, but was “not consistent enough” in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Hill was told by “Bild” about Schumacher’s interlude at the US racing team Haas and cited with a view to not being taken into account for a current cockpit in the coming year.
Mick Schumacher is “a solid driver, but unfortunately not one who wins or wins titles,” Hill put his finger in the wound of the German, who in 2023 and 2024 will only have the role as a substitute and simulator driver at the F1 racing team Mercedes stayed.
But: Unlike many other experts, Hill sees Schumacher’s dream of a Formula 1 comeback as not yet completely lost. However, this requires change. Hill’s tip: “If he wants to have another chance in Formula 1, he has to return as a different driver. It has to click and he has to understand that he cannot make any compromises for his success.”
So is Schumacher just too nice for the premier class? This accusation has haunted the paddock again and again in the past.
IndyCar instead of Formula 1 for Mick Schumacher?
But where could Schumacher learn to drive more uncompromisingly, perhaps in the US IndyCar Series? In any case, RTL expert Christian Danner sees good opportunities for his compatriot there. “He should go there, start over and have fun with life and racing,” Danner recently told sport.de.
Danner himself drove in the single-seater series after his Formula 1 exit in 1989. To date, he is the only German who has managed to score points in Formula 1 and IndyCar.
“It was a relatively short time, but it was incredibly intense and great. I finished in the points in every race there. It was incredibly fun. That’s why I know how great it is,” the 66-year-old looked back.
The series in the USA is simply “just a different world, a new door that you open” and could be exactly the right thing for Mick Schumacher to restart his career. And according to Hill, with appropriate learning success, perhaps even the way back to Formula 1.
Mick’s uncle Ralf Schumacher also recently described it as “not impossible” for his nephew to gain a foothold in the premier class again in the future.
Source: www.sport.de
