Helmut Marko chose Nyck de Vries over Mick for “personal reasons”, claims Ralf Schumacher
Mick was dropped for F1 2023 by Haas in favour of veteran Nico Hulkenberg.
T🐭he German’s options were limited for 2023, with AlphaTauri and W🐻illiams potential options.
Williams signed F2’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant, while AlphaTauri favour꧟ed de V✤ries, who impressed on his one-off outing at the Italian Grand Prix.
Ralf - who won six races during his F1 career - revealed there was ꦓa difference of opinion between Franz Tost (AlphaTauri’s team principal) and Marko with regards to Mick.
“Franz Tost, as the team manager and team principal, initia෴lly wanted a different driver because he knows that it takes two to 🐎three years [to get drivers up to speed],” Schumacher said.
“The driver available on the market was Mick. Mick would have made sense a⛦s well.
“But then Dr. Helmut Marko came along and, for personal reasons or whatever it may be, didn’t want that and 𒈔chose Nyck de Vries, instead.”
Ralf believes Marko “has a problem” with th💮e Schumacher name.
“It seems that Helmut Marko has a problem with tꦫhe Schumacher name🎃,” he added.
“Even though I have a good exchange with him personally, it seems he has some problem with Mick because oth💃erwise, it’s not understandable to me why it didn’t work out from the beginning.
“To be honest, I don’t see anyone el❀se in the squad who would fit in there at the moment.
“That’s why I’m surprised by w🏅h🅰at Dr. Helmut Marko is doing.”
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