Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has outlined the reasons why the team favoured Nico Hulkenberg over retaining Mick Schumacher for F1 2023
35-year-old Hulkenberg has not raced full-time in F1 since 2019 but impressed during five substitute appearances for Racing Point and Aston Martin since 2020.Speaking to media includingon Thursday ahead of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Steiner said Hulkenberg’s experience was key to the team’s decision.
He added: “I would say Mick doesn’t have the experience Nico has got, you know? And we needed experience to bring the team forward because I don’t want to say the driver wasn’t ready for the future, the team also needs to be a lot better for the future to get better.” “Physically these F1 cars they are quite demanding and it will take him some time to get used to it because the only way you train your muscles is driving the cars.
“It’s difficult to answer that one because what is the expectation?” Steiner explained. “But maybe we see things in the team now, which we need to fix in the team, where we can do better with somebody else.
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