Formula 1: Mick Schumacher set to lose seat as Nico Hulkenberg joins Haas

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Mick Schumacher looks acceptable to beryllium near without a Formula 1 contention spot adjacent play aft Haas signed seasoned Nico Hulkenberg to regenerate him.

Schumacher has not done capable successful his 2 seasons with the US-based squad to person them to clasp him for 2023.

Hulkenberg, 35, volition instrumentality to the grid for a afloat play for the archetypal clip since being dropped by Renault successful 2019.

Since past helium has made a fistful of substitute appearances for the Racing Point/Aston Martin team.

The lone remaining anticipation of a contention spot successful F1 adjacent twelvemonth for the lad of seven-time champion Michael Schumacher is if American Logan Sargeant fails to unafraid capable points successful this weekend's Formula 2 finale successful Abu Dhabi to unafraid a thrust astatine Williams.

Williams person said Sargeant, their reserve operator this year, volition get the spot arsenic agelong arsenic helium qualifies. He needs to decorativeness eighth successful the title and is presently lying third.

Schumacher has this twelvemonth scored 12 points to the 25 of Haas team-mate Kevin Magnussen, who has out-qualified him 14 times to 5 successful races wherever a just examination tin beryllium made.

A bid of dense crashes person besides dented Schumacher's hopes.

The 23-year-old is simply a contender for a reserve spot astatine Mercedes. Team main Toto Wolff said connected Sunday that helium "would see taking up this enactment if helium does not get a contention seat".

Wolff added that Mercedes and the Schumacher household "belonged together".

Michael drove for Mercedes successful endurance racing earlier graduating to F1, and his archetypal F1 thrust astatine Jordan successful 1991 was paid for by the German company.

He ended his vocation with a three-year play with Mercedes successful 2010-12 pursuing his instrumentality to F1 aft his archetypal status astatine the extremity of 2006.

Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who is leaving McLaren aft the last contention of the 2022 play successful Abu Dhabi arsenic the squad person terminated his declaration a twelvemonth early, is besides a contender for the Mercedes reserve seat.

Ricciardo is besides said to beryllium successful talks with his erstwhile squad Red Bull astir a akin role.

Hulkenberg has been fixed a accidental to revive a vocation that lasted for 9 seasons and is astir notable for being the longest successful F1 past for a operator who has not scored a podium finish, and for taking rod presumption for uncompetitive Williams successful Brazil successful his debut play successful 2010.

"I'm precise blessed to determination into a full-time contention spot with Haas F1 squad successful 2023 - I consciousness similar I ne'er truly near Formula 1," helium said.

"I'm excited to person the accidental to bash what I emotion the astir again and privation to convey Gene Haas and Gunther Steiner for their trust.

"We person enactment up of america to beryllium capable to vie with each the different teams successful the midfield, and I cannot hold to articulation that conflict again."

Hulkenberg is regarded arsenic a highly-talented operator for whom beardown results person ne'er rather materialised, rather often due to the fact that of his ain errors - helium crashed retired of the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix erstwhile disputing the pb with Lewis Hamilton's McLaren, and imaginable podiums for Renault escaped him aft mistakes successful Azerbaijan successful 2017 and Germany successful 2019.

His champion decorativeness is simply a 4th place, achieved 3 times with the Force India team, the forerunner of Aston Martin.

Hulkenberg and Magnussen, present team-mates successful 2023, famously had a verbal altercation successful the TV interrogation pen aft the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix. The German accused the Dane of being "unsporting" and Magnussen responded with a withering put-down.

The 2 accidental they person since mended their narration and nary longer person issues with each other.

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