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, instructed that competing within the IndyCar Sequence is an choice to revive his single-seater profession.
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Requested if racing single-seaters stays an itch that he needs scratch, Schumacher replied: “100 per cent – I’ve at all times wished to do single-seaters.
“Sportscars has been enjoyable, [but] single-seaters is one thing I burn for and I like, and I’m excited to get again into it.”
The German has picked up three podiums up to now in his two-year stint with Alpine, however when questioned on whether or not his try-out with the Rahal staff on the Indianapolis highway course subsequent month may very well be a prelude to a swap of racing codes for 2026, he described IndyCar as “an excellent choice”.
“IndyCar has some nice expertise, and you’ll see that the races are fairly enjoyable and there are a number of battles occurring,” he stated eventually weekend’s Fuji WEC spherical.
“Additionally, plenty 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 need to check out some totally different lessons.
“I believe it is going to be very totally different to this [racing in Hypercar in the WEC], but in addition, I suppose, totally different to F1.”
Mick Schumacher has made the rostrum 3 times since beginning his WEC profession
Photograph 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 non-public check on 13 October.
It’s going to mark his return to the cockpit of a single-seater for the primary time for the reason that closing 12 months of his two-season stint in a Mercedes F1 check and reserve position final 12 months.
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 recognized to have been in dialogue with the Jota Cadillac WEC squad a few drive in one in all 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 12 months.
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