Haas did not ask Mick Schumacher to stay as their reserve driver because it would have been “a bit cheap”, says Guenther Steiner

Schumacher is not in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 driver line-up aft꧅er his tumultuous relationship with Steinerܫ ended in him being dumped.
The young driver was regularly criticised by his team principal for𓄧 the regularity of his cras﷽hes.
Schumacher will instead be Mercedes’ third driver, a role that Steiner did not want to offer him at Haas, he to❀ld : “I didn’t ask him, to be honest.
“It’s always difficult for somebody, if you have driven for a ♛team, to ꦐthen be relegated to reserve driver. I don’t think he would be happy with that.
“He didn’t appro⛦ach me about that, and I didn’t want to [discuss it].
“It’s a bit cheap to ask him: ‘We won’t let you drive the car😼, but would you like to be the reserve driver’.”

Schumacher added; “I’m 99 p🎉ercent sure that I’ll come to every race and yes, just💜 be around and again, position myself into a place where hopefully in ’24 I’ll be back on the grid.”
The door has been left ajar by Mercedes team boss To🦹to Wolff for Schumacher to eventual♊ly fill one of their full-time seats.
“Just as we let Nyck de Vries go to make a career for himself, the same ಌꩵcould happen with Mick,” said Wolff. “Whether it’s with our team or somewhere else. We don’t know yet.
“The most important factor is his personality. He is a well-mannered, intelligent and talented young man. If you⛦ look at his junior career, he was very good.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🌸erything from American sports, to football, to F1.