F3 race winner David Schumacher is the third driver from his family to race in the DTM. We sat down with him to talk about his season so far and his goals for the future.
David Schumacher is continuing a tradition of sorts this year. After his attempts to move into Formula 2 were stalled by a lack of sponsorship, the 20-year-old cousin of Haas Formula 1 racer Mick became the third member of his esteemed family to race in the DTM by signing for the Winward Mercedes GT3 outfit.
“For me, there’s got to be a solution to that,” Schumacher asserts as Motorsport.com sits down with him in the Winward truck on Friday at the Norisring. “These restarts are a pure lottery. Lausitzring when I started on P10, I didn’t see the lights and my team wanted to talk to me on the radio. But then we had a radio problem, and I couldn’t hear my engineer, so I missed completely the start and lost four positions before Turn 1.
“It’s quite a big difference, it’s harder,” he says. “It’s more contact, I’m not used to that yet, so I’ve got to grow in this part in particular. Obviously also handling the weight of the car is something I’m not used to yet and will probably take a while. Learning the nuances of GT3 cars, such as ABS, remains an ongoing process for Schumacher who is simply targeting learning in 2022“I didn’t put too much pressure on myself, just got in the car and drove my laps,” he recalls. “We had 10 laps to impress them. It was quite tough to get into a GT3 car, I’d never seen one in my life.
But Schumacher says he’s enjoyed the physicality of battles in the DTM, a “day and night difference” compared to single-seaters where even innocuous contact can result in retirement. The limited availability of tyres for testing currently, due to supply chain issues that are also impacting other motorsport series, doesn’t help with providing answers.
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