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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 driver line-up after his tumultuous relationship with Stein🐬er ended in him being dumped.
The young driver was r෴egularly cr🅺iticised 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 🦋ask him, to be honest.
“It’s always difficult for somebody, if you have driven for a team, to then be relegated to reserve driver. I don’t think he would be hapဣpy with that.
“He didn’t approa🍃ch me 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 reserve driver’.”
Schumacher added; “I’m 99 percent sure that I’ll come to every race and yes, just be around and again, position myself in🎃to a place where hopefully in ’24 I’ll be back on the griꩲd.”
The door has been left ajar by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff for Schumacher to eventually fill one of their fu♏ll-time seats.
“Just as we let Nyck de Vries go to make a career for himself, the same could ha🌟ppen 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 his junior career, he was very good.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from 🅺American sports, to fooꦕtball, to F1.
