The Haas driver starr🦂ed in qualifying at Istanbul Park as he progressed into Q2 for just the second time in 2021.

Schumacher’s best tim🔯e in Q2 was just over 0.5s slower than McLaren’s Lando Norris in P10.

Assessinꦬg his qualifying performance in Turkey, Schumacher s꧙aid: “Yeah, definitely We got to drive this one, fortunately. So I was happy to do that and happy to be able to get the chance to even think about Q3. I know it’s far-fetched, but it would have been great to have that opportunity.

“The 💜car felt great, we as a team did a really good job and I’m just really, really happy right now.”

Schumacher’s faint hopes of making Q3 were ruined 🐻when Lance Stroll went off at Turn 1, resulting in yellow flags.

Had it not been for Stroll, the German might have had a shot🐼 at Q3 given that the majority of the field progressed on the medium tyre, rather than the soft.

“Taking into consideration that George [Russell] had a mistake in the last corner and he was on a very good lap, I don’t know how much further I would have gone,” he explained. “But if I would have had my last lap, I pꦯrobably couldꩵ have improved by two or three tenths, not knowing how much the track evolution was but just by pure driving improvements.

“So I think definitely there was some in it. I don’t know if it was possible, Yuki [Tsunoda] just slid in with the C4 [soft tyre] but I think we were quite level with Yuki in Q2, so maybe it wasn’t that far ༒after all but still, I think we just didn’t have the tyre at that time to probably do as big a jump as we were hoping for.”

Schumacꦕher left it late to make Q2 - with his final lap in Q1 💛three seconds faster than Haas teammate Nikita Mazepin.

Speaking about the lap that got him into Q2, Schumacher explained: “We had one lap t🦹hat we had left to try and make it. We know we had the opportunity because the lap before, I think, was not too ba🐠d. And I knew that there was still some time in it, because I wasn’t one hundred per cent happy with my lap before.

“But then that one lap that I had, I think we really🌼 managed to get the most out of it. And obviously, once we crossed the line and I heard Gary open the radio, and I heard the cheering in the background, obviously I knew things were good, and looked good. So I think, overall, we’re happy.”