Mick Schumacher and the Alpine team owned by Renault announced on Wednesday that the German driver will participate with the team in the World Endurance Championship next season after missing a year of Formula 1 racing. Mick will also continue his role as a reserve driver for Mercedes. The son of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher will join French drivers Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Charles Milesi, and Paul-Loup Chatin, in addition to Austrian Ferdinand Habsburg.
Schumacher, who raced with Haas in Formula 1 in 2021 and 2022 and spent this year as a reserve driver at Mercedes, will make his debut in the World Endurance Championship. Mercedes separately confirmed that the German will continue as a reserve driver for the team. The 24-year-old driver stated, "I am starting a new chapter in my career with the Alpine team. I grew up in single-seater cars, so driving a closed-cockpit car with covered wheels is a great opportunity to refine my driving skills. I missed racing greatly this year. This is what I loved doing since I was a child, and it was sometimes hard for me to watch other drivers out on the tracks."
