Mick Schumacher settled in well with the Haas F1 team in the 2021 season. In the last three races, the German has prevailed against his Russian team-mate Nikita Mazepin. At the beginning of the season, Schumacher worked with Charles Leclerc’s former driver-trainer Jock Clear.
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This is actually the second time that the Schumacher-Clear partnership has graced Formula 1. To be precise, he worked with Michael Schumacher for a while. However, it was only in his final year at Mercedes that Clear connected with the 7-time world champion.
The Englishman has been active in the F1 scene with the Benetton Formula 1 team as head of composite design since 1989. Two years later, the Leyton House Racing Team recruited him as a senior designer. For the 1994 season he moved to Team Lotus and took over the role of racing engineer from Johnny Herbert.
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After the outfit collapsed, he switched to Williams and brought David Coulthard to his first Grand Prix win. In addition, he helped the Scot to third place in the drivers’ championship this year.
Who else did he work with before teaming up with Mick Schumacher?
Jock Clear has quite a résumé and world along with a few other high profile drivers. This includes that he was Jacques Villeneuve’s race engineer at Williams in 1996. Together, the two finally won the 1997 World Cup. Clear Villeneuve later joined British American Racing in 1999.
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Formula 1 F1 – Emilia Romagna Grand Prix – Autodromo Enzo and Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy – April 17, 2021 Haas’ Mick Schumacher in action during the qualifying REUTERS / Jennifer Lorenzini
The partnership lasted until 2003 and Takuma Sato took over the vacant seat. Apart from Sato, he was connected to Rubens Barrichello until 2009. As the team evolved into the Brawn GP in 2009, he and Barrichello finished third in the world championship.
Finally he joined Michael Schumacher in the then still young Mercedes team. Although Schumacher’s return to Formula 1 was less than spectacular, it formed the building blocks for the subsequent success of Mercedes.
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