Karting career Schumacher began karting at a young age, alongside his cousin
Mick. From there, he competed in multiple karting championships under his mother's maiden name Brinkmann. In 2017, David's last year in karts, he chose to race with the Schumacher name and finished as runner-up in the
DKM Championship to
Dennis Hauger in the senior class.
Lower formulae In August 2017, it was announced that Schumacher would graduate to single-seaters, competing for his father's US Racing outfit in the
2018 ADAC Formula 4 Championship. In January 2018, he made his single-seater debut, contesting the
Formula 4 UAE Championship with Rasgaira Motorsports Team from the second round onwards. Claiming three wins, Schumacher ended the season as vice-champion to Charles Weerts. In ADAC Formula 4, Schumacher scored a consistent string of points finishes, with three fourth places being his best finishes, and ended the season ninth in the championship. His results translated into eight race wins in the Rookies' Cup and he claimed the title of rookie champion.
Euroformula Open Championship & Asian F3 Winter Series Schumacher competed in the final two rounds of the
2018 Euroformula Open Championship with
RP Motorsport. He was ineligible to score points as a guest driver, but claimed two 4th-place finishes at the
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. These results placed him sixth in the Spanish Formula 3 championship, which is made up of three rounds from the Euroformula Open championship. In January 2019, Schumacher was named as part of Pinnacle Motorsport's three car line-up for the
Asian F3 Winter Series. He competed in two of the championship's three rounds, taking a podium finish at the
Buriram International Circuit and finishing 8th in the championship.
Formula Regional European Championship In March 2019, it was announced that Schumacher would compete in the
inaugural season of the Formula Regional European Championship, returning to the US Racing team co-owned by his father. He claimed four race victories over the season, including two consecutively at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, as well as five other podium finishes, five pole positions and three fastest laps. He ended the season 4th in the championship.
FIA Formula 3 Championship 2019 In September 2019, Schumacher made his debut in the
FIA Formula 3 Championship, standing in at
Campos Racing for the injured
Alex Peroni at the final round in
Sochi. Schumacher finished the two races in 22nd and 20th. Schumacher made his first appearance at the
Macau Grand Prix in November, racing for
Sauber Junior Team by Charouz. He placed 23rd in qualifying, fell back to 25th in the qualifying race and finished 21st in the main race. In December he took part in the second round of the
MRF Challenge Formula 2000 series at
Bahrain International Circuit, taking both pole positions of the weekend and finishing all four races on the podium, including a victory in the second race.
2020 In February 2020, it was confirmed that Schumacher would return to the
FIA Formula 3 Championship, racing full-time with Charouz Racing System. However, following the Spanish round, he left Charouz to join Carlin Racing. He did not score any points, had a best finish of 12th at the Austria feature race, and finished the championship in 28th place.
2021 In February 2021, it was announced that Schumacher would race for
Trident Racing in the
2021 season. On 4 July 2021 he achieved his first FIA F3 points, podium and victory in race 2 of the
third round at the
Red Bull Ring, having started the race from reverse-grid pole. Throughout the next two rounds, the German would go on to finish in the points in all but one race, even scoring his second podium of the year in the second race at
Spa-Francorchamps, where he and teammate
Jack Doohan gave
Trident their first one-two finish in their
Formula 3 history. At Zandvoort, Schumacher qualified a career best of second, behind
Dennis Hauger. During the feature race, with three laps to go, Schumacher was running in second place until
Victor Martins made a failed attempt to pass Schumacher, taking him out while trying to overtake him. Schumacher's fifth place the race before proved to be his last points finish during the season, as he finished 14th and 15th in the final round. He ended the season with just 55 points, compared to his teammates Doohan and
Novalak with 179 and 147 points respectively. He still however, helped Trident clinch the constructors' championship by 4 points.
2022 In April 2022, it was announced that Schumacher would return to
Charouz Racing System, the team which he drove for in 2020, to replace
Ayrton Simmons at the
Imola round. He started 29th and last for both of the races, but recovered to finish 18th and 12th in the races. Due to
DTM commitments, Schumacher was replaced by
Lirim Zendeli for the
Barcelona round. At
Zandvoort, Schumacher made his second appearance of the season with Charouz, as
Christian Mansell returned to his main campaign in the
Euroformula Open. Schumacher once again returned to DTM that clashed with the
Monza season finale and was replaced by
Alessandro Famularo. Schumacher ended the championship 28th overall, highest of the non-scorers and even ahead of some full-timers. == Sportscar career ==