The next accident and an "annoyed" boss: Mick Schumacher's last costly crashes are gradually becoming a problem for his Formula 1 racing team, Haas.
"You always plan with accidents, especially with rookies," said team boss Günther Steiner during the Hungarian Grand Prix: "But we have reached a point where we have to work on reducing the number of accidents."
Schumacher had "major accidents in the last few races": "Spinning is not a problem, but these accidents cost a lot of money." In the third free practice session on Saturday, the 22-year-old lost control of his racing car in high-speed corner 11 and hit the side of the tire wall. The Haas mechanics could not replace the damaged gearbox in time, so Schumacher missed qualifying before the race this Sunday (3 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for Formula 1 and on Sky).
“The accidents are becoming a bit more frequent and more violent, we make too many mistakes,” said Steiner, who expressly excluded Schumacher's much-scolded team-mate Nikita Masepin from criticism: “We don't speak in the plural.
Nikita behaved well, he had no damage lately.
But Mick had a few accidents in the last few races. "
Such an incident in free practice is particularly annoying: “There was no reason to take a risk.
You have to explain to the young drivers when it is worth taking a risk and when it is not.
I think you know that now.
Hopefully this explanation will help you. "
Immediately after the accident, Steiner was “really annoyed”, “ten out of ten” on a scale, the South Tyrolean said on Saturday. By the evening it had cooled down to "five out of ten". In such incidents, he always kept the financial situation of the backbench team in mind: “We have a budget and we have to deal with that. We have to see what we do then. "