{"id":179237,"date":"2025-09-30T05:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179237\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:02:17","slug":"mick-schumacher-still-burns-for-single-seaters-despite-wec-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179237\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Schumacher ‘still burns’ for single-seaters despite WEC switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mick Schumacher<\/a> insisted that racing single-seaters is \u201cstill something I burn for\u201d as he gears up for a maiden IndyCar test next month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The veteran of 43 Formula 1 starts, who has raced sportscars for Alpine<\/a> in the World Endurance Championship for the past two seasons, suggested that competing in the IndyCar Series is an option to revive his single-seater career.<\/p>\n

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Asked if racing single-seaters remains an itch that he wants scratch, Schumacher replied: \u201cOne hundred per cent \u2013 I have always wanted to do single-seaters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSportscars has been fun, [but] single-seaters is something I burn for and I love, and I am excited to get back into it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The German has picked up three podiums so far in his two-year stint with Alpine, but when questioned on whether his try-out with the Rahal team on the Indianapolis road course next month could be a prelude to a switch of racing codes for 2026, he described IndyCar as \u201ca great option\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIndyCar has some great talent, and you can see that the races are pretty fun and there are a lot of battles going on,\u201d he said at last weekend\u2019s Fuji WEC round.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, lots of guys out there I have raced against in the junior formulae, and it will be interesting to see them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do want to try out some different classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be very different to this [racing in Hypercar in the WEC], but also, I guess, different to F1.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Mick <\/p>\n

Mick Schumacher has made the podium three times since starting his WEC career<\/p>\n

Photo by: Andreas Beil<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old also intimated that he has time to return to sportscar racing later in his career, saying, \u201cI am still pretty young\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schumacher will get his IndyCar try-out aboard a Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Dallara-Honda DW12 on the 2.44-mile roval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during a private test on 13 October.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It will mark his return to the cockpit of a single-seater for the first time since the final year of his two-season stint in a Mercedes F1 test and reserve role last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The announcement of the test by the Rahal last week came against a backdrop of rumours that Schumacher is looking beyond Alpine for 2026.<\/p>\n

He is known to have been in discussion with the Jota Cadillac WEC squad about a drive in one of its Hypercar entries in a deal that could have been linked to a F1 reserve role with the US manufacturer as it enters F1 next year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Schumacher insisted that racing single-seaters is \u201cstill something I burn for\u201d as he gears up for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[821,64,63,109616,109617,5856,3553,115513,806,805,803,804,85,94075],"class_list":["post-179237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alpine","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fuji","tag-fuji-international-speedway","tag-indycar","tag-mick-schumacher","tag-mick-schumacher-still-burns-for-single-seaters-despite-wec-switch","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-wec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}