Mick Schumacher has confirmed a seat in the IndyCar series is an option for him in 2026.<\/p>\n
The German had his first taste of the American category on Monday as he took part in a test with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.<\/p>\n
Schumacher drove around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course as he explored a potential route back to single-seater racing next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been good to get to know the car, get to know the team,\u201d Schumacher told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we really managed to get through all the run plan and all the test items we wanted to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re stoked about what the lap times are doing. It wasn’t a main target, but still, it went pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was dropped by the Haas F1 team at the end of the 2022 campaign and has since raced in the World Endurance Championship with Alpine.<\/p>\n
However, he has not raced in single-seater competition since his exit from the F1 grid.<\/p>\n
Drawing on a quote from his seven-time F1 champion father Michael, Schumacher highlighted that he feels he belongs in single-seater racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt being similar to a single seater, or it being a single seater – that’s really what is kind of attracting me to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love having open wheels. I think one of the things my dad always said was \u2018the Schumacher\u2019s are usually faster if they can see their wheels\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do like that quote. It’s just the appeal of racing 17 times a year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of what I’m doing in 2026, it’s very open. Obviously, the options are all there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndyCar is one of them. So I really just wanted to know what it was, so that I can make my mind up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have different options, so there\u2019s good potential. It\u2019s about me now, trying to figure out what I want to do, and if this is one thing that I would consider for long term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Schumacher has confirmed a seat in the IndyCar series is an option for him in 2026. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-214015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214015","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=214015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}