Alpine : Schumacher with the Blues

As announced in AUTO issue 2439hebdo, the six lucky ones elected to represent the A arrowed brand in the Hypercar category of the World ChampionshipEndurance FIA 2024 will be Nicolas lapierre, Charles Milesi, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Paul-Loup Chatin, Ferdinand Habsburg and therefore Mick Schumacher.

The 24-year-old German will make his debut in Endurance, after a test in Jerez (Spain) carried out in mid-October at the wheel of the French prototype. The opportunity also for him to participate in 24 Hours of Le Mans (June 15-16, 2024), twenty-three years after the only appearance of his father Michael in Sarthe (see Classic), in 1991 with Sauber-Mercedes (5th). And above all to return to competition after a season spent on the sidelines as a Mercedes reserve.

« A new chapter opens for me with Alpine in the Hypercar category of WEC, explains the German driver with 43 starts in Formula 1 with Haas in 2021-2022. The car is impressive and I can't wait to get started. I grew up with single-seaters, so driving a car with a closed cockpit and covered wheels is a great opportunity to hone my driving skills.

I missed the competition a lot this year; That’s what I’ve loved doing ever since.