Mick Schumacher and
Guenther Steiner have not been very comfortable with each other during their time together at
Haas F1. From the outside, they did not always make it seem that way, but Uncle Ralf Schumacher lashed out several times in the media at Steiner and his way of working (together). Meanwhile, Schumacher himself has also opened up about his former team boss.
Schumacher drove for Haas
F1 between 2021 and 2022 but never became completely uncontested. Last year, he had little to offer against
Kevin Magnussen, so his contract was not renewed. Some heavy crashes also caused a lot of costs and a lot of extra work for the American racing stable. Schumacher was replaced by
Nico Hulkenberg.
That the German did not get the most out of it, according to himself, has not only to do with himself. "
You cannot assume that a driver performs optimally if you do not support him in the right way," he shares at
Sky, seemingly sneering at Steiner and
Haas F1. At Mercedes, as a test and reserve driver, he experiences "what it should really be like".
"The two years [at Haas] were overwhelmingly not that."Schumacher wants to return to F1
Schumacher's first goal has been achieved, which was to reach
Formula 1. The second goal is to become the world champion in the premier class of motorsport. But for that, he has to return first. Hard work is being done on that.
"But at the moment, there is little movement. Many drivers are already fixed or have contracts that only expire at the end of next year. Therefore, unfortunately, there is also a Plan B," said the 24-year-old driver, who did not elaborate on what that plan entails.