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Mick Schumacher to race Alesi, Fittipaldi and Newey

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Mick Schumacher will race alongside a host of familiar surnames on his debut appearance in the MRF Challenge this weekend.

The son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael will take part in the championship's final round in India from January 30-31, with four races taking place in Chennai over the weekend.

16-year-old Mick will be racing alongside championship leader Pietro Fittipaldi - grandson of double world champion Emerson - as well as Jean Alesi's son Giuliano and Harrison Newey, son of legendary F1 designer Adrian.

The outing will be Schumacher's first single seater race outside Europe, with the German having only stepped up from karts to the ADAC Formula 4 championship last year. This season Schumacher was originally set for another season in F4, but is now working on a potential step up to F3 with Prema Powerteam.

Should Schumacher race in F3 this season he will again come up against Harrison Newey, with the Briton making his debut in the series for Van Amersfoort - the same team which ran Schumacher in German F4 last year.

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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.