Pressure on Schumacher is growing: What is Günther Steiner doing?

Mick Schumacher left the port of Monte Carlo with slight body aches and an increasingly worrying scrap balance. After the horror pictures of his destroyed Formula 1 racing car Things could get a little more uncomfortable for the 23-year-old within the team.

Instead of racing into the championship points in the strengthened Haas in his second season, he completely dismantled his company car for the second time this year in the seventh race of the season in Monaco. The major crash once again tears a deep hole in the racing team's tight budget and demolishes the reputation of the son of record champion Michael Schumacher. Schumacher combative “The season is still long, the tide can turn and very quickly in that case. I've shown this before. I’m sure I can show that this year too,” said Mick Schumacher after completing the check-up at the track hospital. He had already survived a serious accident during qualifying uninjured in Saudi Arabia in March, but was unable to take part in the race.

Schumacher's violent crash in Monaco. © ANSA / CHRISTIAN BRUNA / POOL

In his second year in a racing series, he had actually always had a breakthrough in his career. In Formula 3 he won the title in his second season, and it worked the same way in Formula 2. Now, after a respectable debut season, he wanted to really get started in Formula 1. However, the accident at the swimming pool in Monte Carlo, in which his car broke in two parts, is now increasing the pressure on Schumacher enormously.

“We saw what happened with Mick. “It’s not particularly satisfying to have another serious accident,” said team boss Günther Steiner. “We’ll have to see where it goes from here,” he added. The South Tyrolean left open what exactly he meant by that. But it is probably due to the complex repair work on the car. There isn't much time until the next race in Baku in just under two weeks. “It’s not particularly satisfying to have another serious accident” Haas team boss Günther Steiner Before the classic in Monaco, Steiner had refrained from warning his drivers to be careful in view of possible accident costs. He also doesn't assume that the pilots are thinking so much about the budget, "but rather about their own careers first. And if you just keep causing accidents, you won’t have a career,” Steiner emphasized. Still without a Formula 1 point Mick Schumacher's career in Formula 1 is still in its early stages. 2021 was a year without any real benchmark. He had his teammate at the time Nikita Masepin under control, but otherwise there was nothing to be gained from the then Haas. This year started promisingly for the team, current stablemate Kevin Magnussen has already scored 15 points. Schumacher not a single one.

When he was well on his way to the top ten at the premiere in Miami, he collided with his friend and compatriot Sebastian Vettel in the Aston Martin. The pace was right in Monaco. “It was just a matter of keeping the car on the track. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get it done,” he said. Just as he otherwise deals openly and self-critically with his mistakes.

The question is how Mick Schumacher frees himself from the threatening downward spiral. He no longer felt any major physical pain on Monday. However, every self-inflicted accident eats away at a pilot's self-confidence. And the pictures of a broken company car are not self-promotion either. Especially not for a pupil of the Ferrari academy who would like to sit in the Scuderia car at some point.

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Pressure on Schumacher is growing: What is Günther Steiner doing?

Mick Schumacher is in a sporting crisis. After his violent crash on Sunday in Monaco, speculation about his future is growing. But how does the Merano Haas team boss, Günther Steiner, react?

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