Aug.28 (GMM) Ralf Schumacher suspects Alpine was by no means severe about contemplating his nephew Mick for the 2025 season.
Already a part of the French model’s world endurance championship lineup, 25-year-old Schumacher was invited to a head-to-head take a look at in July together with fellow 2025 contender Jack Doohan, driving a two-year-old Alpine at Paul Ricard.
Doohan finally secured the race seat to switch Haas-bound Esteban Ocon subsequent 12 months, however Schumacher’s uncle Ralf says the shootout take a look at was “unfair”.
“Mick drove the automobile within the afternoon and Jack Doohan drove it within the morning,” the previous F1 race winner instructed Sky Deutschland. “I used to be there myself.
“If you happen to drove at 9am, you have been two and a half seconds sooner as a result of it was 38 levels and windy later within the day. And when you have that method to testing, it’s a must to query whether or not they took it critically.”
Ralf Schumacher had additionally slammed Alpine workforce administration for permitting Mick to seek out out about Doohan’s 2025 race seat contract through Instagram final week at Zandvoort.
“You possibly can say that the workforce has fully misplaced its means in the intervening time,” he mentioned. “Flavio (Briatore) is floating above every thing now.”
Even Doohan admits the head-to-head shootout with Schumacher had been “unusual”.
“It was unusual. I simply saved it enterprise, no matter who was subsequent to me,” the 21-year-old Australian admitted. “On the finish of the day, regardless of the end result was of that, I positioned myself to ensure I used to be first in line to get this seat.”
