Haas boss Guenther Steiner denies “bullying” Mick Schumacher after Netflix revelations

‘Drive To Survive’ dedicated an episode to Schumacher, who lost his seat at Haas at the end o🐠f 2022, and showed several examples of team principal Steiner criticising his ability and the frequency of his crashes.
Steiner was filmed by Netflix saying “he f****** destroys the car just because the other🃏 one is faster” and “you cannot buy🐻 it or develop [talent]”.
"Nothing was out of the ordinary,” Steiner now tells at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Bahrain Grand Prix.
"We don't need to do bullying, because after all, he was our driver. If we 🐭want to decide something, we don't have to d🦹o it.
“I can also absolutely unde🧔rstand Mick's fans. I🉐n the heat of the moment, you sometimes say something you might say differently an hour later, but it wasn't bullying at all."

Steiner now says about seeing Schumacher again: "When I saw him last weekend, I greeted him. We didn't talk to each other. The good thing is that our routes in the paddock to th🌼e toilets are not such that you constantly cross paths due to the distance!”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg was recruited as Schumacher’s replacement alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen.
The new partnership has had a rocky r🎃elationship - in 2017 Magnussen told Hulkenberg to “suck my b****” after a clash in Hungary.
Hulkenber🌳g has now said: “I sort of thought ‘it’s time to break the ice’ and reached out with a hand and with a smi🐈le and put his words into his face.”

James was a sports journal♛ist at Sky Sports for a decade 🥂covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.