Audi has denied that early contract talks with Mick Schumacher might already be taking place. The only active German driver at present is 35-year-old Hulkenberg, who is returning to Formula 1 in 2023 after a three-year break. But another option for Audi would be Mick Schumacher, the 23-year-old German who was replaced at Haas for this year by Hulkenberg. “Of course, German drivers are just as attractive to us as they are to the top management of the parent company,” Markus Duesmann, chairman of the Audi board, said. “We are open to drivers of all nationalities and languages.”. Duesmann suggested that Audi has bigger problems to solve before putting serious thought into the 2026 driver lineup.

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