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The fact that Haas did not renew Mick Schumacher’s contract after two years in Formula 1 and instead brought Nico Hülkenberg out of “retirement” to sign him for the 2023 season was met with some criticism at the end of 2022.
In the Formula 1 talk with ‘auto motor und sport’, Haas team boss Günther Steiner explains in detail how this decision came about – and Schumacher’s performance on the track was not the decisive argument.
Because when asked if the German hadn’t improved enough over the course of two years, Steiner says: “Better or worse doesn’t really play much of a role here.”
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“What we wanted to achieve is to improve the team. I think we still have potential to get better as a team. And what is the best way to bring a team forward? With drivers you know what they can do and who can take the team forward.”
“Mick is unfortunately only in his second season,” Steiner points out. “And there are people who have been there before, who have already spent seven, eight, ten years in Formula 1, and they simply know more. They can bring the team forward and that’s why we decided to do it,” he explains.
It was not a question of Schumacher being too bad. “He has improved a lot this year,” the Haas team boss knows. “Some moments were very good, I must say. That’s when we were all pleasantly surprised by what he brought.”
Steiner is now hoping for the same at Haas: “There is a reason why we are taking Nico. It’s not because we love him. There is a performance reason.”
The team boss does not want to deny that Schumacher’s performance on the track was also good in some areas. “Canada, Silverstone and Austria were very good,” he says. However, the German was unable to build on this afterwards.
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“Why he had those highlights … I think the car was also in a good condition for the three races,” Steiner says. “Kevin was also always doing well. And afterwards, in the second half of the season, I think he was not much worse than Kevin in terms of performance overall, you have to say.”
