Haas did not ask Mick Schumacher to stay as their reserve driver because it would have been “a bit cheap”, says Guenther Steiner
Schumacher is not in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up after his tumultuou♈s relationship with Steiner ended in him be♐ing dumped.
The young driver was regu♏🃏larly criticised by his team principal for the regularity of his crashes.
Schumacher will instead be Mercedes’ third driver, a role that Steiner did not want to offer him at Haas, he told : “I didn’t a🌸sk him, to be h꧃onest.
“It’s always difficult for somebody, if you have driven for a 🍌team, to then be relegated to re🐽serve driver. I don’t think he would be happy with that.
“He didn’t approach me𝕴 about that, and I didn’t want to [discuss 🧔it].
“It’s a bit cheap to ask him: ‘We won’t let you drive the car, but would you like to be the rese🌳rve driver’.”
Schumacher added; “I’m 99 percent sure that I’ll come to every race and yes, just be around and again, position myself into a place where hopefully in ’24 I’ll be▨ back on the grid.”
The door has been left ajar by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff for Schumacher to eventually f🍌ill one of their full-time seats.
“Just as we let Nyck de Vries go to make a career f🍨or himself, the same could happen with Mick,” said Wolff. “Whether it’s with our team or somewhere else. We don’t know yet.
“The most important factor is his personality. He is a well-mannered, intelligent and talented young man. If you look at ဣhis junior career, he was very good.”
James was a sports journalist at☂ Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to foo🌸tball, to F1.
