F1 team's damning Schumacher ultimatum

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The proprietor of Haas F1 said Mick Schumacher indispensable people immoderate points implicit the last 4 races of the play to amusement helium deserves a 3rd play successful that seat.

Gene Haas says that the F1 organisation has spoken to different drivers astir 2023 but that "Mick's aboriginal is going to beryllium decided by Mick."

Schumacher is the lad of seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher. He's scored 12 points done 18 races with F1 adjacent scheduled to contention astatine Circuit of the Americas successful Texas connected Monday morning. There are 4 races remaining connected the F1 schedule.

"We're conscionable waiting. We request Mick to bring immoderate points and we're trying to springiness him arsenic overmuch clip arsenic imaginable to spot what helium tin do," Haas told The Associated Press. "If helium wants to enactment with us, he's got to amusement america that helium tin people immoderate much points. That's what we are waiting for."

The 23-year-old Schumacher is ranked 16th successful the standings retired of 20 full-time F1 drivers, and has 1 little contention this play than the remainder of the field. He missed the 2nd contention of the play aft a clang successful qualifying astatine Saudi Arabia required a abbreviated infirmary enactment for the German driver.

Kevin Magnussen, who was brought backmost to Haas this play aft his 2021 firing and a twelvemonth spent racing successful the United States, has 22 points and is ranked 14th successful the standings.

"We started disconnected the twelvemonth with resounding occurrence and I deliberation the mediate play wasn't excessively good, and we conscionable look to autumn backmost into our accustomed mode of running," Haas told the AP. "We've conscionable got to get retired of that. And Formula One is truthful tough. When I started determination was six seconds betwixt the leaders and the backend and you had a 107 per cent rule. Now we're each wrong 2 seconds, truthful it's gotten a batch tougher and determination are nary atrocious teams anymore."

Schumacher's crashes person tested the patience of Haas and the squad leadership.

"In this sport, being benignant of a rookie driver, the athletics conscionable doesn't let it — it's conscionable excessively expensive," Haas said. "If you marque immoderate mistakes successful operator selection, oregon strategy, oregon tyre selection, it is costing you millions of dollars.

"I deliberation Mick has got a batch of potential, but you cognize helium costs a luck and he's wrecked a batch of cars that person outgo america a batch of wealth that we conscionable don't have. Now, if you bring america immoderate points, and you are (Max) Verstappen and you wreck cars, we'll woody with it. But erstwhile you are successful the backmost and you wreck cars, that's precise difficult."

Asked if Schumacher has the afloat last 4 races to beryllium himself to Haas, the squad proprietor said: "Well, if helium wins the adjacent one, he's in. Somewhere successful betwixt determination is simply a grey area."

The drivers being mentioned to regenerate Schumacher see Antonio Giovinazzi and, much recently, Nico Hulkenberg, who made 2 starts this play arsenic a substitute operator for Aston Martin.

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