“Why don’t you sign him?” Everyone wants Michael Schumacher’s son to be in F1, but no one wants him on their team

It has happened again. A Formula 1 team has confirmed its driver for next season and The chosen one has not been Mick Schumacher. This time it is Sauber who has closed the signing of the young Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto for next season, choosing him as the spearhead of the future Audi project.

Mattia Binotto, the head of Audi, has praised Schumacher despite not being the chosen one, and has sent a message to Toto Wolff, head of Mercedes who seems determined to place the son of ‘The Kaiser’: “Why don’t you sign him?”. It seems like everyone wants to see Mick Schumacher in Formula 1, but no one on his team.

Sauber has not signed Schumacher either, let him stay another year on the F1 bench

It already happened a few months ago. When Williams confirmed the promotion of Franco Colapinto to its car, Toto Wolff questioned the British team’s decision, and the response was forceful: “If you like it so much, sign him.” Well, now it has happened again with Sauber, and Binotto has not bitten his tongue either.

“We should ask him why he doesn’t sign him. Why Kimi and not Mick?“, Binotto responded to Wolff’s words, insisting that Schumacher should have been the choice. At Mercedes there was a free spot, but Wolff has opted for the Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli rather than for Schumacher, his tester, whom he wants to place in other sites.

In any case, Binotto has been full of praise for Schumacher after rejecting it, exactly what James Vowles did in his day in the Williams case. “He was a strong candidate. I know him well from the past and I know what his strengths and weaknesses are, but he would have been a good choice. There have been many candidates for the position,” Binotto said.

However, Binotto ran Ferrari when little Schumacher was the greatest pearl of the Maranello quarry. Helmut Marko, with seats available in the Red Bull team, also praised the German recently. The general feeling is that everyone in the paddock wants Schumacher on the trackbut no one on your team.

Schumacher’s reputation for destroying cars since his time at Haas seems to be taking its toll on him, and His career in Formula 1 is on the brink of collapse at only 25 years old.. For now, he will not be on the 2025 grid unless there is a miracle, and it will already be his third consecutive season away from the big circus. Almost unrecoverable.

Meanwhile, all the team leaders are full of praise for him and they ask for an opportunity in Formula 1. Of course, in another team.