Schumacher did not renew with Haas because he almost "ruined" the team

Guenther Steiner, head of the Haas team, continues to play the role, even though he says he is not an actor, the quintessential F1 bad guy, in a direct fight with Helmut Marko. His role in the direction of the young Mick Schumacher, two seasons in the American team, have been criticized, especially after publicly airing their discrepancies in the popular Netflix series 'Drive to Survive'.

"I don't regret what you see, I was not an actor, I lead a team and I said what I said ," he assures about his strong criticism of Mick (with Gene Haas for example) both for his expensive accidents at the start of the 2022 season as for being slower than Kevin Magnussen, booked at the last minute on the sofa at his house after Nikita Mazepin's abrupt goodbye.

Steiner also now adds to the collection that Mick cost them 2 million for his crashes during that first part of last season, and he tells it in his book 'Surviving for driving', paraphrasing the title of the series that triumphs above all in the US.

And it results in the fact that Japan cost 700,000, an accident on the start lap of the first free practice that Steiner still cannot explain, not even with the prevailing water and the enormous aquaplaning in that turn 7. "It happened on the fucking entry lap, in the first one that came back, it was very wet but they all returned the car to the pits. How many people could we employ with 700,000 dollars? And now where do I find that money", he narrates.

Steiner acknowledges that he began to look for a replacement, after the bumps in Arabia and Monaco, but above all after that run off the track at Suzuka: "I can't have a driver that I'm not sure can drive a car safely in one lap slow. It's fucking ridiculous."

All this criticism has not gone down well in many pits , including the one at Mercedes, where Mick is now third driver. "With Michael Schumacher in the pit, Steiner would not have dared to treat Mick like that," Toto Wolff said recently.

The Mercedes boss assures that if there is any loss again due to Covid or illness, the official substitute and driver for that race at Mercedes will be Mick . "And I want to close the debate on that," he recently added.

And Ralf, the same, "I think, and this is what bothers me the most, that if my brother had been there, Günther Steiner would have behaved differently, it would have been enough," he closes.

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