Schumacher, the son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael, has been regularly spotted checking out rival ꧙teams’ cars in parc ferme this season, including after the Styrian Grand Pr🌠ix. 

But the German insists it is not a trait he ha❀s picked up from his fellow countryman and friend Sebastiܫan Vettel, who has acted as something of a mentor to Schumacher during his rookie F1 season. 

“It is something that I have been doing since karti𝓀ng, really,” Schumacher explained.

“It is always good to know, especially how the tyres look on other cars, and 💛tไo see if I can understand and learn from that.

“Tyres are like an open boo💧k, they will show you every little mistake and every little detail or other cars and also of my car. So inspecting other cars ♊is always a part of that and I will for sure keep doing that.

“Because parc ferme at the 🥀end is when I would g🃏et closest to another car. I can’t walk in anybody’s garage and say, ‘Hi there, I am just going to check out your car and then leave’. 

“So, definitely, it’s a good🐼 place to look at it.”

Despite enduring a tough ✨first season in F1 in uncompetitive, und෴er-developed machinery at Haas, Schumacher has impressed his team with his positive attitude and strong work ethic. 

“I’m relatively happy how it’s going,” Schumacher said. “Performance-wise it’s tough but nonetheless we managed to get our way around it, we work really wel♚l together.

“I do enjoy my time here, so much that it’s easy for me to comဣe early to work and leave work late, just becཧause it’s so enjoyable.

“Itꦕ really reflects also in our performance. That’s really 🔯what what is important to me, the hard work will pay off at some point and it already does.”