Mick Schumacher starred in a violent accident during the second round of qualifying at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and, after a few minutes with his heart in his mouth until he knew that he was fine, the boss of his team, Guenther Steiner , reported on what what had happened
The head of Haas indicated that he was in perfect health, but that he was going to be evacuated to the hospital to undergo medical tests to rule out any possible injury.
“I didn’t speak with him directly, I did with his mother and kept her informed,” the Italian said. “It has no damage as you can see, they just wanted to check it out, doing some scans to see that there are no injuries from the impact.”
Asked if the crash was due to a car problem, Steiner said: “It looks like he went into the curb and then he lost the car, you’re going really fast, but there doesn’t seem to be any breakage. We’ve lost all the data in the impact and we had no contact with him, everything was cut, I guess it was because of the accident.
“We didn’t talk to him on the radio because with the hit, everything digital was broken,” Haas’s boss continued. “We didn’t know anything, but then we got the message that he was conscious, which was the most important thing, and then when he got out of the car they said he had no external injuries.
Mick Schumacher was having a good session, he was even inside Q3 before the accident: “I think our car is good, you always try to get the best, and maybe he tried too hard here. If you make a mistake, you know, there’s no loopholes, they’re walls, and that’s what he had.”
“I haven’t seen the car, we have to investigate afterwards and decide what we do for tomorrow, but I don’t know yet,” said Steiner. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but you just have to look at the car and see what we need to change, everything has to be reviewed at an impact like this, so we may have to build everything again.
Haas will have a lot of work ahead of him to recover the VF-22 that was split in half in Jeddah, and that is something that the team knows: “This shows how safe they are, and this year they have increased the toughness after the crash from Romain [Grosjean], for sure it has helped and the luck is that the pilot is well”.
“After seeing the replay, we can’t take any chances, and in two weeks we will be in Melbourne, and it’s better to focus on being in good shape there,” Steiner said.
