A new path will open for Mick Schumacher

McLaren has announced that, as part of its agreement with Mercedes, it will also be able to request the services of Mick Schumacher as reserve driver for its officials Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri throughout the 2023 season, opening a new path for German, reserve. for Mercedes and reserve for McLaren.

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“McLaren will be able to call on Mick Schumacher as reserve driver throughout the 2023 Formula 1 season, as part of our agreement with Mercedes. Welcome to the family, Mick,” McLaren said on Twitter, also mentioning the team’s new principal , Andrea Stella , was Michael Schumacher’s former performance engineer at Ferrari.

The 23-year-old driver was axed by Haas at the end of 2022 after just two seasons in F1 and also cut ties by mutual agreement with the Ferrari driver academy, which trained him and where he was a reserve driver in 2022. he joined Mercedes, the team where his father Michael finished his career.

His role in the German structure is limited to a reserve driver, and among his duties are the testing of parts and complete laps in the simulator and also has the option of running races, in case one of the starters (Hamilton and Russell) will cause low.

McLaren has also contracted the 2021 IndyCar champion, Alex Palou, as a reserve driver, but has always been subject to the Catalan program with Chip Ganassi since 10 of the 23 scheduled F1 grand prix that coincide with IndyCar.

Share the reservation, usually

Last season, McLaren had a booking-sharing agreement with Renault-owned Alpine when Australian Oscar Piastri was Alpine’s third driver. McLaren then won a contract dispute with Alpine to have Piastri run them this year. Also Mercedes and Williams shared Nyck de Vries as a reserve last season.