Michael Schumacher’s son Mick sets reclaiming the win record as his goal

Michael Schumacher’s son Mick suggests the prospect of Lewis Hamilton equalling the Ferrari great’s all-time record of ninety one wins has provided him some thing to goal for when he receives to Formulation One particular.

Hamilton, who changed Schumacher senior at Mercedes in 2013, can consider his 91st victory in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix in Sochi — a race he has won 4 periods earlier.

“One particular sentence my dad often utilized to say was, ‘Records are there to be damaged.’ It is everybody’s goal in this activity to do that,” Formulation Two championship chief Mick explained on Friday.

“I believe Lewis had a pretty, pretty fantastic run. He had a pretty consecutive and good run.

“It is fantastic for the activity. … the upcoming goal would be then I guess for me, if I do make the step (up), to crack that once more,” extra the 21-yr-aged.

7-time environment champion Michael Schumacher took his past get with Ferrari in China in 2006. He has not appeared in public since he endured intense head injuries in a 2013 snowboarding incident.

Hamilton is on training course for a seventh crown and is set to exchange the German as the most prosperous F1 driver of all time. The Briton presently has more pole positions, podiums and factors finishes.

Hamilton explained he prized the helmet he exchanged with Schumacher in Abu Dhabi in 2012 and felt ‘pure admiration’ for a person he initial met as a youngster at the German’s kart monitor in Kerpen.

Asked whether or not he may possibly shed a tear as Schumacher did when he matched the late Brazilian triple champion Ayrton Senna’s 41 wins in 2000, Hamilton explained he remembered that but was not targeted on the quantities.

“I simply cannot explain to you how I am going to truly feel, or what it is going to suggest, or if it is going to suggest anything at all,” explained the Briton, an energetic campaigner for racial equality and justice.

“There is certainly other and more substantial problems occurring in the environment.”

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, for whom compatriot Schumacher was a boyhood idol and who has fifty three career wins, explained he would have mixed feelings.

“On 1 hand, I will be unfortunate for the reason that Michael is nonetheless my hero,” explained the 4-time environment champion. “On the other hand, I will be pretty pleased for Lewis.

“I believe he warrants all the results he has had in the past years, and he is going to have in this yr … and the upcoming years.”