Even if Mick Schumacher is doing well, his serious accident is affecting other drivers in Formula 1. World champion Max Verstappen has now sharply criticized the course in Saudi Arabia.
After Mick Schumacher had a serious accident on the Jeddah race track in Saudi Arabia (Here you can read more about it), world champion Max Verstappen has now criticized the designers of the course. This is reported by the “image”.
The Dutchman said: “If you lose the car like Mick and crash into the track, it’s painful and very, very dangerous. And not only that, the straights aren’t really straight because they have a lot of blind little corners.”
“I don’t understand why they design it that way”
Schumacher crashed sideways into the barriers on the ultra-fast street circuit at high speed. The car was thrown across the track and then came to a stop badly damaged. The Haas pilot, meanwhile, announced in a message to his fans that he was fine (Here you can read more about it).
However, Verstappen went a step further, saying in relation to the fast street circuit: “I don’t understand why it was designed that way. If you’re supposed to go full throttle, just do a straight line, it’s safer for everyone.” Not the first time that the race in Saudi Arabia made negative headlines.
Already last year, today’s Mercedes driver George Russell called the route “unnecessarily risky” after a mass accident.