Mick Schumacher insisted that racing single-seaters is “nonetheless one thing I burn for” as he gears up for a maiden IndyCar check subsequent month.
The veteran of 43 System 1 begins, who has raced sportscars for Alpine within the World Endurance Championship for the previous two seasons, steered that competing within the IndyCar Collection is an choice to revive his single-seater profession.
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Requested if racing single-seaters stays an itch that he desires scratch, Schumacher replied: “100 per cent – I’ve all the time needed to do single-seaters.
“Sportscars has been enjoyable, [but] single-seaters is one thing I burn for and I really like, and I’m excited to get again into it.”
The German has picked up three podiums to this point in his two-year stint with Alpine, however when questioned on whether or not his try-out with the Rahal workforce on the Indianapolis street course subsequent month might be a prelude to a swap of racing codes for 2026, he described IndyCar as “an amazing choice”.
“IndyCar has some nice expertise, and you may see that the races are fairly enjoyable and there are numerous battles occurring,” he stated finally weekend’s Fuji WEC spherical.
“Additionally, a number of guys on the market I’ve raced in opposition to within the junior formulae, and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see them.
“I do wish to check out some completely different lessons.
“I feel it is going to be very completely different to this [racing in Hypercar in the WEC], but additionally, I assume, completely different to F1.”
Mick Schumacher has made the rostrum 3 times since beginning his WEC profession
Picture by: Andreas Beil
The 26-year-old additionally intimated that he has time to return to sportscar racing later in his profession, saying, “I’m nonetheless fairly younger”.
Schumacher will get his IndyCar try-out aboard a Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Dallara-Honda DW12 on the two.44-mile roval on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway throughout a personal check on 13 October.
It would mark his return to the cockpit of a single-seater for the primary time for the reason that ultimate yr of his two-season stint in a Mercedes F1 check and reserve position final yr.
The announcement of the check by the Rahal final week got here in opposition to a backdrop of rumours that Schumacher is trying past Alpine for 2026.
He’s identified to have been in dialogue with the Jota Cadillac WEC squad a few drive in certainly one of its Hypercar entries in a deal that would have been linked to a F1 reserve position with the US producer because it enters F1 subsequent yr.
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