One of the heaviest names in history could return to the grid.

Mick Schumacher back in Formula 1 canò be. The German left the grid at the end of 2022, when he broke relations with Haas (relations with Gunther Steiner, team principal of the U.S. team, were particularly strained) to become a reserve driver for Mercedes. The year 2025 could però become the year of his return to the grid, precisely in the Sauber ready to pass under Audi control. And confirming this è was Mattia Binotto himself.

The former team principal of Ferrari è in fact, at the center of the project that will bring Audi into Formula 1, precisely through Sauber, and to the ‘Corriere della Sera’ he admitted that one of the two next drivers of the team could be Mick Schumacher himself: “Definitely among the profiles we are evaluating there’è also his”, he said.

“I have already met Mick Schumacher and talked to him,” Binotto added.

I have known him for many years, since he comes from the Ferrari Driver Academy, and I know very well what are his merits and what are his flaws. Forò we have the luxury of taking our time to decide, since all the other teams have made both their drivers official for 2025″.

The new Audi-run Sauber has already long since announced the signing of Nico Hulkenberg, while week after week the chances of Valtteri Bottas being confirmed are dwindling. Also hot is the candidacy of Franco Colapinto, who has been excellent in recent races in Williams, but there are other equally young options. Michael Schumacher’s son must beat competition in this regard from the upstarts Gabriel Bortoleto and Theo Pourchaire.

A crucial milestone in a career that later became full of success.

Antonio Conte è leading Serie A with his Napoli, which the Salento coach has set since his first year on the slopes of Vesuvius with his trademark four-man defense. Yet in his past there was a no small junction, and one that had great weight on the early successes of his coaching career. And that was consumed; on the bench of the Azzurri’s rival par excellence: Juventus.

Remembering him è was Conte himself, who spoke Saturday in connection with the Festival dello Sport to greet the pivots of his defense at Juventus: Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini. “I embrace you all, becauseé we always talk about the attackers and much more rarely about the defenders. You però have been a great example, and you have made me change an important idea”, said the Napoli coach.

Then Conte recalled what happened in bianconero in that distant 2011-2012: “I was coming back from championships won in Bari and Siena with the 4-2-4 and I wanted to set up Juventus that way as well. In short, I had started from a completely different idea than the three-man defense. Then però I adapted to the players I had and their characteristics. Especially those of Bonucci, which otherwise would have been sacrificed”.

“The concepts of the game have remained, but from the tactical point of view I have evolved,” Conte added. I’m glad I decided to focus on the skill of individuals, instead of fossilizing on my ideas. And that trio, then, made history”. And the Napoli coach himself, from that experience, changed his approach to his craft. And now it is precisely the Azzurri who are benefiting from it.

A great champion claiming a legendary track.

Max Verstappen and Mugello have crossed paths almost imperceptibly, given also that the Scarperia circuit has on only one occasion hosted Formula 1. It happened in 2020, when it held the Tuscan Grand Prix useful to complete a calendar mowed down by the Covid’emergency. Yet the Red Bull champion has made it clear without mincing words that he wants to return to the track certainly made moreù famous over the decades by the exploits of MotoGP centaurs.

“Mugello è a track that has a sequence of very fast corners, which cannot be found elsewhere,” Verstappen remarked during a speech for Pirelli’s podcast, ‘Box Box Box’ -In the Formula 1 world championship there are so many less inspiring circuits, this one on the other hand è fantastic. And I really want it to be part of our annual calendar”.

A display of sporting love that moreover might surprise some, given what happened in that 2020 Tuscany Grand Prix. In F1’s only precedent at Mugello, victory went to Lewis Hamilton, in another of that year’s dominant Sundays (second came Valtteri Bottas in the other Mercedes). Verstappen was, moreover, forced to retire already at the second corner due to a collision, in a Sunday marked by several even spectacular accidents.

On that occasion Mugello became the fourth Italian location to host in history at least one official Formula 1 Grand Prix, after Pescara, Imola and obviously Monza. The simultaneous presence of the latter two tracks in the calendars of these seasons, however, makes it currently unlikely to imagine a return of the Circus on the ups and downs of the Florentine Apennines.