Ever felt like taking a nap while watching the first practice session of a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
If so, you may as well apply for a job as reserve and simulator driver for an F1 team – provided, of course, you can handle 1000bhp four-wheelers and don’t get dizzy from being bounced around inside a carbonfibre capsule on pneumatic rods for hours on end.
Mick Schumacher isn’t bad at all of that. Although, he confesses to GP Racing as we sit down for a chat in Mercedes’ enclave within the Singapore GP paddock, sleeping through FP1 isn’t always easy. But it’s also part of the job to be able to work well past midnight in that phase of a grand prix weekend…
“No, luckily I’m in a hotel,” he laughs at the suggestion that he’d have to curl up on a bench somewhere in the engineering office on those long Fridays when he’s on Mercedes sim duties. “It looks like
