F3-EUROPE

Mick Schumacher reaches the top at 19

Mick Schumacher is the great champion of the 2018 European F3 season. This Saturday (13), after a first complicated race involved in accidents, the German made a second test playing with the regulation. He dropped second and stayed there, just surrounding Jüri Vips and, with 18 points, secured the pitch.Vips, with his fourth win in 2018, moved up to third in the league and still has a mathematical chance of being runner-up. His compatriot, the more experienced Ralf Aron, also went to the podium in third place.Schumacher is 19 and making his second full season at European F3. The German won eight races, five of them consecutively.Although he was tested by Toro Rosso and had the possibility of going straight for F1, the young German has already made clear that he is interested in making F2, his first destination in 2019.Mick Schumacher, who finished in twelfth position on his debut in Formula 3 last year, has an important weekend ahead of him and everything indicates the starlet will finally get on the first step of the podium.The German takes a lead of 49 points over England's Daniel Ticktum and will be on the hunt for more, as there will be a maximum of 75 points available in the final three races.Mick Schumacher (19) has missed the early title compound in the European Formula 3 Championship. Michael Schumacher finished in the season finals in the first Hockenheim competition, only twelfth place and remained without points. This favored his championship match Daniel Ticktum (UK), who came fifth and kept his chance at the title.Schumacher still has all the trumps in hand with a 39-point advantage over Ticktum. On Saturday at 16.30 (n-tv) follows the second race of the day, where Schumacher starts from second place. Ticktum must start from 15th place.


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