One’s pride in reaching Formula 1 and becoming an official driver of a team is incomparable, but it should be even more so when you see a son achieve a dream in the highest category of motorsports after being a legend like Michael. Schumacher.
For more than a year, the Kaiser has Mick in the Grand Circus competing with Haas , a team that has gone from dragging itself at the back of the grid to having a single-seater capable of facing its rivals in the race from time to time. Middle area. And that is what he did at the 2022 British Grand Prix, where the German scored the first points of his life in F1.
From the very moment he crossed the finish line, after a heated battle against Max Verstappen in the final laps and who, curiously enough, is also the son of one of his father’s Formula 1 teammates, Jos , at Benetton , the hubbub could be heard on the radio.
The Haas driver was overjoyed when it was confirmed that he had finished eighth in the Silverstone race, as after 31 Grands Prix he collected his first points. The German is the sixth in the list that have taken the longest to score in the Great Circus in all history, so it was more than enough reason to celebrate.
“You’ve done it, you’ve done it, awesome! Well done, absolutely brilliant. Slow mode now please slow mode,” his engineer was saying over the radio. “Great job, great run, Mick.”
The son of the seven-time world champion responded with immense emotion: “I told you, damn it, it was brilliant. You were fucking brilliant, guys, fucking brilliant, pardon my language.”
The boss of the American team, Guenther Steiner , also wanted to congratulate his driver on the return lap to the pitlane: “Mick, fantastic job, thanks for your driving, it finally happened, impressive driving, thank you.”
And there, the young man said the phrase. “Prove them wrong and believe in yourself, that’s what I told dad.”
Mick remembered Michael in this feat that he achieved in Great Britain, and it is that a decade had passed since the Schumacher surname returned to add in Formula 1, specifically since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix .
This was the push that the young German needed, who saw how his family supported him at all times, and did not hesitate to appear on the radio, as did his sister, Gina , and his mother, Corina , who has accompanied him in the moments most important in your life.
“Hey, Mick, super, super, super, super,” exclaimed the Kaiser’s daughter, to which the pilot responded with an animated “thank you, Gina!” The ever-attentive parent Corina sent him an affectionate message: “Micky, I’m super proud of you! Great job, honey!”
