By Joe Murphy
But the son of record world champion Michael Schumacher is facing growing criticism and doubts after a series of accidents. He must not allow himself another slip-up in the urban sprawl of Baku.
Team boss Günther Steiner warned with a view to the Canadian round scheduled this weekend:
“It will be even more difficult if there is any damage to the car…” Mick Schumacher, in particular, may take that as a clear directive. He completely destroyed his car in Saudi Arabia and Monaco respectively. In addition, there were accidents in Bahrain and Miami.
According to reports, the 23-year-old’s misfortunes have already cost his team more than a million euros this year, and this is still growing. A new chassis, gearbox parts as well as hundred of hours of work on the car has hurt the already cash-strapped Haas racing team. In the worst case, less money is left for the technical development of the cars.
Apart from Williams driver Nicholas Latifi, the young German is the only driver still without points this year. This scales even more in comparison to his teammate because his Kevin Magnussen already has scored 15 points.
“There is no hiding in Formula 1. Only results count. Mick knows that very well, too,” said the team boss.
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