Mick Schumacher has chosen the number 47 to race with on his car during his debut Formula 1 s🐓eason with Haas in 2021.

The currenඣt Formula 2 championship leader will graduate to F1 next year with Haas on a “multi-year contract” in a dea⛎l that was announced on Wednesday ahead of this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain.

Schumacher explained that his choice of nu൲mber was partly influenced by “a funny mix of things”, including both the success he has enjoyed and that of his father, seven-time world champion Michael.

It also came about by adding up all of 🥂the members of his family’s birthdays together.

“Four and seven are two of the numbers that I really like,” Schumacher said when asked why he h✃ad picked 47 as his race number. “Obviously four I won the F3 championship and the seven because obviously seven is a number that is very close to me as well.

“As bot💛h of them were taken, I think 47 was the best choice. Then at the end as well, which is quite, let’s say, ‘unblinded’, was the fact that if we calcula🦩ted all the birthdays of our family together it would equal 47.

“So it was a pretty nice feature to it and I thi🍌nk it just underlined that we should choose that number.”

Schu🔯macher confirmed the ‘seven’ is a reference to the number of world titles his father won during his F1 career.

“Definitely ‘seven’ is partly because of that,” said Schumacher,ꦓ “but it’s also just a number that I generally like personally and I guess also our family we like the seven.”