1997 F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has urged Cadillac not to sign Mick Schumacher, insisting there is “no reason” to pick the German driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schumacher is one of a number of drivers reportedly being considered by F1’s newest team, who will officially enter the sport from next year when the new power unit regulations are introduced.<\/p>\n
For its first two seasons, Cadillac will be a Ferrari customer outfit, before becoming a factory team and produce its own power unit.<\/p>\n
For much of the year, the American squad has insisted it wants an experienced driver pairing; however, several unexperienced drivers are being considered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schumacher is one of those, with the son of Michael Schumacher having not raced in F1 since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old competed for Haas in 2021 and 2022, a period in which he only scored points on two occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mistakes were made on a regular basis, costing Haas significant money due to the size of some of his crashes. Nico Hulkenberg, ultimately, replaced him for 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since then, he spent a year as Mercedes’ reserve driver, but has raced for Alpine in the World Endurance Championship. In Villeneuve’s eyes, Schumacher should be avoided.<\/p>\n
“Mick Schumacher had a hard time when he was at Haas. He\u2019s not an experienced driver either. There\u2019s no reason to go for him,” Villeneuve told Vision4Sport.<\/p>\n
Whilst Villeneuve views Schumacher as the wrong option, he believes Cadillac should sign current Mercedes reserve Valtteri Bottas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 10-time F1 race winner is eager to return to the grid, with Villeneuve believing his experience with Mercedes could be pivotal to Cadillac.<\/p>\n
“Bottas has a lot of experience and he\u2019s shown that he can win races,” Villeneuve said.<\/p>\n
“And he\u2019s been with an amazing team in Mercedes. So that\u2019s good attributes to have. It\u2019s hard to judge his Sauber years. I don\u2019t think there was any hunger there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1997 F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has urged Cadillac not to sign Mick Schumacher, insisting there is “no reason”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-64677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}