Michael Schumacher’s 15-year-old son, Mick, will embark on his first season of car racing this year in Germany’s Formula 4 Championship.
The young Schumacher has raced at karting’s top levels in recent years, often under pseudonyms in order to avoid attention.
His step into Formula 4 comes with Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing, which ran Max Verstappen in European Formula 3 last year.
“We have seen his skills in testing and we are looking forward to a successful season,” said team principal Frits van Amersfoort.
“In the last couple of years, it has become a tradition for us that we offer the runner-up from the German junior karting championship a test session in our simulator.
“This is handled by the DMSB, the German motorsport authority, and that is how we first got in touch with Mick Schumacher last autumn.
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“He spent a full day in the simulator at our headquarters in the Netherlands, then we witnessed him during a test session at Valencia and, eventually, we reached an agreement to compete together in this year’s ADAC Formula 4 series.”
Last year saw Schumacher finish runner-up in the CIK World and European KF Junior championships.
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