Haas driver Mick Schumacher was also unable to score points in the ninth race of the Formula 1 season. But unlike in the weeks before, his failure was not his own fault. After the Canadian Grand Prix, he received acclaim for his performance.
After the outstanding result in qualifying on Saturday, when Mick Schumacher took sixth place on the grid for the first time in his fledgling Formula 1 career, hopes for something countable in the World Championship standings were high.
The 23-year-old lost two places after the start, but was able to hold his ground well in the race. But then bad luck struck: A technical defect on lap 20 ended Schumacher’s dreams abruptly. At the time of the retirement, he was comfortably in the points in seventh place.
The racing driver was contrite after the incident: “Of course it’s an unpleasant feeling in this case, because we had the pace to drive P5, it looks like.” Mick Schumacher was ahead of Alfa driver Guanyu Zhou, who finished the race in eighth place.
Danner on Schumacher: “Mick goes into the next race stronger”
The son of F1 legend Michael Schumacher should not take the recent setback too seriously, says motorsport expert Christian Danner. “You have to tick that off and I think Mick will be stronger for the next race,” said Danner in the “AvD Motor & Sport Magazin” on “Sport1”.
Schumacher, who was under enormous pressure ahead of the Canada race due to self-inflicted accidents, “has now had a weekend without running the car in two, without being a second slower than his team-mate and he was able to where he was drove, stay,” explained Danner. “It gives you confidence.”
Haas colleague Kevin Magnussen was thrown out of the points early because he had a damaged front wing after a collision with Lewis Hamilton on the first lap and had to pit. With a one-stop strategy, the Dane ended up 17th and last.
The next Formula 1 stop is the Silverstone Grand Prix (01.07. – 03.07., live on RTL).