Mick Schumacher will make his first look on the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity subsequent month when he drives the W02, the automotive raced by his father Michael through the 2011 season.
Followers will even get to see the W12, the group’s World Championship-winning 2021 challenger, operating up the hill within the fingers of Esteban Gutierrez.
“It’ll be spectacular to run in my Dad’s 2011 automotive, the W02, even when it is just a brief run,” stated Schumacher. “Simply experiencing this era of automobiles might be mega! Understanding that he raced this automotive makes it additional particular, and there might be many feelings coming with it.
“I’ve been fortunate sufficient to drive considered one of his Benetton automobiles and a number of the Ferraris he raced, however this would be the first time behind the wheel of a Mercedes he drove. I’m positive I’ll get out of it with a giant smile on my face.”
The W02 was the second automotive designed and constructed by Mercedes Grand Prix after buying the group in 2009. Raced by Michael and Nico Rosberg, it turned a daily factors scorer en path to fourth within the Constructors’ Championship. In Michael’s fingers, it achieved a finest results of fourth within the Canadian Grand Prix.
The W12 in the meantime wants little introduction. Pushed by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, the automotive took 9 victories, together with an extra 19 podium finishes, throughout a rare 2021 season and secured a record-breaking eighth consecutive Constructors’ Championship for the group.
