“Mick Schumacher snubbed” is one of the more outre – if suitably attention-grabbing – headline takes on the news that Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will drive for Cadillac when the General Motors brand appears on the F1 grid next season.
True, Schumacher Jr is understood to have been one of the names potentially up for consideration, along with Franco Colapinto, Zhou Guanyu, Felipe Drugovich, Jack Doohan, Frederik Vesti and Jak Crawford. But that is beginning to sound dangerously like a list, and team principal Graeme Lowdon has repeatedly said there was never a list.
