Mick Schumacher Quotes

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

From GP3 to Formula 2, it's obviously a step, but it's only a step on driving I would say. Here from Formula 2 to Formula 1, it's a huge step on driving because we have nearly 400 BHP more, with a lot more downforce. So it's a completely different car.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.

I've never been to a race car race before.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

I started watching Formula 1 with my dad when I was just four or five years old. I loved cars.

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

The moment I prefer is the moment I put on the helmet, that everyone is leaving the pit lane, that I'm alone with the car and there it feels good. You don't have any feelings anymore; it's just racing and this I enjoy.

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.