Mick Schumacher suffered a massive collision at the Monaco Grand Prix, knocking the gearbox off the back of his vehicle.
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The German driver Mick Schumacher suffered a massive collision at the Monaco Grand Prix, knocking the gearbox off the back of his vehicle, only a few weeks after an equally damaging crash in Jeddah qualifying. He was also hurt when he crashed with Sebastian Vettel late in the Miami Grand Prix. The chassis that crashed in Monaco is being repaired, but Schumacher has lost use of the gearbox that was ripped off in the collision.
The HAAS F1 team principal Gunther Steiner opined that the German driver needs to up his skill and not crash in a greed to score some points. “It’s just not possible to continue like this and he knows that. He’s also crashing into a wall at some stage. It’s also not healthy. Obviously he wants to score points, and if you crash into the wall, you don’t score points.”
He knows that, so it’s like putting pressure on and telling him you shouldn’t go and crash. I don’t do that. I never do that. Because I think they know that they shouldn’t be crashing. So I think there’s a lot of things going on, but there is not one simple answer. We need to see how we go forward. There’s a lot of things we have to sort out now.” expressed Steiner
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According to Steiner, the team’s damage allowance for the 2022 season has already been exceeded due to the collisions. “We have passed that allowance, we passed that in Jeddah. We are in front of the allowance, I would love to be in front of how many points we scored, but we are in front of the allowance for crashes. But the team leader claimed that he didn’t need to lecture Schumacher about the expense because it wasn’t good for the team.
“No, we spoke about it, but I don’t go into explaining to him how much or how I need to run the team. He reads what you guys write, so he comes to me and asks is it really this amount of money? I said, I don’t know, because I haven’t said it. So you it’s an estimation, but yes, it is this amount of money.” expressed the team principal.
While larger teams are worried about the impact of accidents on the cost cap, Steiner underlined that the issue for Haas is how much money the team has left to spend on replacement components from suppliers Dallara and Ferrari. “The budget cap is not the problem. The budget is the problem, because we are not at the budget cap.” revealed Steiner.
