Romain Grosjean has some experience with how Haas operates in Formula 1. According to the Frenchman, the team has compromised Mick Schumacher
Mick Schumacher's moment is the most complicated since he became a Formula One driver at the beginning of last year. After recurrent accidents and still no championship points, Schumacher's continuity is starting to be debated. According to Romain Grosjean, someone who knows Haas like almost nobody else, the team has been a major factor in the young German's difficulties.
According to Grosjean, Schumacher wants to repeat the great results that Kevin Magnussen achieved earlier in the year - fifth place in Bahrain and ninth place in Saudi Arabia and Emilia-Romagna. Only the Haas car has fallen behind in the order of strength, and at the moment there is no way of repeating these achievements under normal conditions. In pursuing the impossible, it makes mistakes. In Canada, for example, a mistake cost him the chance to score for the first time in F1.
It is something he assesses as normal at Haas, where he was the first driver hired in the US team's home season, 2016. Grosjean stayed for five years, until the end of 2020.
"He needs to get back on track and stay on his feet. Some recent races have been tricky, but I don't think the car is helping, because it's going backwards," he assessed to the British website GPFans.
"Mick probably wants to do what Kevin did at the beginning of the year, finishing races in fifth place and scoring points, but right now the car can't do that because it has no updates," he continued.
"That's typical of Haas: you start well and you go backwards. I know that too well. If you keep trying to finish fifth, as Mick now would like to be and score good points, you start making mistakes. That's what happens. So you go at your pace and sometimes being slower is going faster," he continued.
In fact, Haas hasn't scored a point in five races. When the teams introduced major updates, at the Spanish GP, the team promised to bring changes within a few races, but the time has not yet come.
In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Haas boss Guenther Steiner assures that the relationship with Schumacher remains good. It is not something that will negatively affect the German's chances of continuing or not with the team for 2023.
"They have been saying that we don't talk to each other. We laugh a lot at what others say and how they claim we don't have a good relationship," he assured.
Formula One returns next weekend, July 1-3, at Silverstone with the British GP.
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