Mick Schumacher speaks out against treatment at Haas F1 team: "I can see now how it should be..."
The German was dropped by Haas at the end of a crash-strewn and difficult sophomore F1 season in 2022🐬, with being drafted in to replace him.
Schumacher has acted as Mercedes’ reserve driver in 2023 and suggested that heꦦ feels more support in his current environment than he did at Haas.
"I ﷺcan see now how it should be. ꦡMy two years [with Haas] didn’t show me that,” he told Sky Deutschland.
“[You cannot] assume a driver🍸 will perform at his best if you don’t support him in the right way.
“People will never hand you flowers, you 🎃hꦛave to pick them yourself. I know that now.”
Earlier this year, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff suggested that Schumacher would have been treated differently at Haas had his legendary father Michael been in the F1 paddock.
"I'm looking out for the little one,” Wolff told Swisಌs newspaper Blick. “I can only say that his parents did nothing wrong in bringing him up.
“And I claim that if Michael had accompanied his son during the two Haas years, Steiner would not have dared 💜to treat Mick like that!”
Responding to Wolff’s accusation at the time, Haas team principal Guenther Steiner told Sky Sports: “What I have to say is, if♓ my father would have been around Toto wouldn't have said the things he said.”
Schumacher’s hopes of returning to the F1 grid full-time ♔in 2024 are looking slim.
“Toto Wolff was asked about Mick Schumacher,”ꦺ reported Ted Kravitz on Sky.
“Toto was asked: ‘Can you g💝et a berth for Mick, your development and reserve driver, for next year?’
“‘Is there opportunity at Williams, maybe if they don’t keep Logan S꧙argeant?’
“Toto said: ‘Unfortunate✤ly for Mick, it looks like all the doors are being closed in front of him’.
“If you’re a fan🤪 of Mick Schumacher, and let’s face it, who isn’t? S🥂adly it doesn’t look like Mick is going to be back on the grid next year.
“In which case he’s going to haꦡve to find a ꧋different series to race in, because he can’t have two years away from racing, that would just really hurt too much for him.
“Let’s see what happens. Maybe there will be a place ꦗat Williams 🦄turn up. Sargeant had a disappointing day. But let’s see.”
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