Mick Schumacher has been🧜 “lobbying hard” to seal an F1 return with the new Cadillac team, it has been claimed.&nbs🅘p;

The son of legendary seven-time world champion Michael has been seeking a way back💛 onto the F1 grid after l𝔍osing his seat at Haas at the end of the 2022 season.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Schumacher spent the following two years as Mercedes’ reserve driver before joining Alpine’s World Endurance Ch꧃ampionship squad.

Cadillac’s arrival as the 11th team has opened up two more spots on the grid and given Schumacher renewed hope of returning to F1.

According to F1.com, Schumacher has been “lobbying hard to find a way into♊ the Cadilla🌠c family for 2026”.

F1.com names Schumacher among the list of drivers under consideration at Cadillac, albeit𓄧 a driver who is “furth💝er down the pecking order”.

Experienced options Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas are understood to be the frontrunners, with thꦫe likes of Schumacher, Zhou Guanyu and Felipe Drugovich also believed to be on the list of potential candidates.

Schumacher scored 12 points across 44 races for American outfit Haas between the 2021 ꧑and 2022 seasons.

Both the G🍷erman’s points finishes came in back-to-back races in Great Britain and Austria in 2022.

Schumღacher’s best F1 result is sixth place, which he achieve꧂d at the Austrian Grand Prix.

Have Cadillac changed plans?

Cadillac originally held a desire to field anဣ American driver alongside a more expe﷽rienced grand prix driver, though this scenario is reportedly “becoming less likely for next year”.

Experience is no✅w viewed as being “key” for Cadillac who will be led by team principal Graeme Lowdon.

“That's why Perez and Bottas are under such serious consideration at Cadillac and are the ꦫfrontrunners – but is also why there are a few others still in the mix,” reports.

The report concludes that Cadillac are not in a rush to sign drivers but are keen to have at least one driver signed “b𓄧efore the end of the summer” to help with car development.

As a result, talks with drivers are expected to “accelerate in the coming weeks as they zero in on th💯eir debuꦫt line-up.”