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Schumacher will race with Van Amersfoort Racing, the Dutch team that propelled Max Verstappen - son of Schumacher Sr's 1994 Benetton F1 team-mate Jos - to prominence in Formula 3 last season.
The ADAC F4 Championship, Germany's new series for Tatuus-Abarth cars run to the FIA's new F4 concept, kicks off at Oschersleben on April 25-26, by which time Schumacher will be 16.
Michael Schumacher’s 15-year-old son Mick has signed a contract with Van Amersfoort Racing to drive in the Formula 4, a series for young talents.
The Dutch team’s owner Frits van Amersfoort said: “we have watched his skills in test driving and are looking forward to a successful season.” Mick Schumacher finished second in the German kart championship last season.
With seven titles, Schumacher is the most successful Formula One driver in history and also holds many other records in the series. His brother Ralf was also a Formula One driver and is still involved with motor sport.
Mick finished second in the world, European and German kart championships last season, racing as Mick Junior or under his mother’s maiden name to protect his privacy. He will make his debut for Van Amersfoort Racing in Oschersleben, Germany, on 25-26 April by which time he will be 16.
Formula 4, the new single-seat category to FIA standards, aims at young drivers with a background in karting. “In the last couple of years, it has become a tradition for us that we offer the runner-up from the German junior karting championship a test session in our simulator,” Van Amersfoort said.
“This is handled by the DMSB, the German motor sport authority, and that is how we first got in touch with Mick Schumacher last autumn. He spent a full day in the simulator at our headquarters in The Netherlands. Then we witnessed him during a test session at Valencia and eventually, we reached an agreement to compete together in this year’s ADAC Formula 4 series.”
Van Amersfoort ran Max Verstappen in Formula 3 last year. Verstappen, son of Michael Schumacher’s former teammate Jos, is set to become the youngest driver to start a Formula One race when the season opens later this month in Australia. He will be 17. Verstappen will be driving for Toro Rosso.