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 S🌃teiner ended in ꦑhim being dumped.
The young driver was r𒈔egularly criticised by his team principal for the regularity of his🎃 crashes.
Schumacher will instead be Mercedes’ thir🌺d 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 rel𒁃egated to reserve driver. I don’t think he would be happy with that.
“He didn’t approach me a🦋bout that, and I didn’t want to [discuss it].
“It’s a bit cheap to ask him: ‘We𝔉 won’t let you drive the car, but would you like to be the reser🅷ve 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 backꦦ onꦫ the grid.”
The door has been left ajar by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff for Schumacher to e𝓀ventually fill one of their full-time seats.
“Just as 𒊎we let Nyck de Vries go to make a career for 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 talente🦹d 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 football, to F1.
