Mick Schumacher to race alongside Hamilton and Rosberg

Mick Schumacher - the son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael - will race alongside Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at a Mercedes event in December.

The Mercedes Stars and Cars event will take place on Saturday, December 12 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart as a celebration of the latest Mercedes Motorsport season. As part of the event, 16 drivers will face off in identical cars around a stadium circuit - similar to the Race of Champions - with Hamilton and Rosberg being joined by the eight Mercedes DTM drivers, including F1 reserve and 2015 DTM champion Pascal Wehrlein.

The remaining six drivers for the event were selected by a fan vote, with Schumacher coming out on top ahead of former F1 drivers David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen and Jean Alesi, who will also be joined by five-time DTM champion Bernd Schneider and F1 Safety Car driver Bernd Maylander.

With the driver selection complete, a new fan vote will decide the line-up for the round of 16.

Schumacher stepped up to his first year in cars this season, finishing the German Formula 4 championship in tenth position overall and third place in the rookie standings. The 16-year-old won one race in 2015 as well as taking two further podiums.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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