ESPN.com · Apr 3, 2019
Mick Schumacher's F1 debut: What we learned
SAKHIR, Bahrain -- As debut tests go, they don't get more high-profile than Mick Schumacher's in Bahrain on Tuesday. Most drivers on the fringe of Formula One make their debut with a midfield or backmarker team; they get a chance to acclimatise to the level of engineering, the sheer speed of the car and the glare of the media without the burden of expectation. But not the son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
Whatever may or may not happen to Mick Schumacher during his first F1 drive this week, it will not be a patch on the extraordinary events surrounding his father Michael's debut in August 1991, recalls Maurice Hamilton.