After qualifying for the first time in Q3 of his Formula 1 career, Mick Schumacher was unable to use the good starting position for the race in Spain. Although he was able to move up from tenth to sixth position at the start, he continued to fall back over the course of the race and ended up in 14th place.
The Haas driver attributes the fact that it was not enough for his first Formula 1 points to a bad strategy: “I think it was because we are not in the points now. The strategy turned out to be a bit different than expected.”
“We just have to see how we came up with such a strategy and why we didn’t react to it,” said Schumacher. “In the end you are always smarter afterwards. That’s why we’ll work on it as a team and see what we can improve.”
Alongside Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas and his teammate Kevin Magnussen, Schumacher was the only driver to use a two-stop strategy. Except for the Alfa Romeo driver, none of these drivers could finish in the top 10.
With a total of 35 laps on his last stint with the medium tires, Schumacher also drove the longest stint of all drivers on one set of tires in the heat battle in Barcelona.
“After the very good first lap, the hopes were very high,” he says, disappointed. “But, after the third round, the feeling started: ‘Oh, that could be difficult.'”
Sky expert Timo Glock also sees the blame for Haas’ lack of pace: “This is a track that shows the weaknesses of such a car. With these temperatures, the car simply puts too much strain on the tyres, especially in the last sector.”
“Haas just doesn’t have enough downforce if you compare it to the Ferrari, for example, which was able to maintain good pace for a very long time early in the race. Maybe the car is mechanically too hard with the tires, which of course means they break down more quickly,” explains Glock.
“The tires didn’t last as long as we expected,” confirms Schumacher. “And then we made the wrong decision to stick with Plan A and not go on a three-stop strategy.”
He also says that one of his pit stops was not ideal, causing him to lose even more ground. “The start was still a lot of fun, but then it was frustrating that we didn’t have the pace to stay ahead.”
For the coming race weekend in Monaco, the Haas driver thinks he has a good chance of finally being able to score his first points in Formula 1: “Even without upgrades, our car is still very strong, especially in qualifying performance, which was the case in Monaco ultimately counts.”
“I also felt very comfortable in Monaco last year, although unfortunately I didn’t qualify. Hopefully it will be better this year and we can show our performance then,” said Schumacher.
This article was written by Kevin Herman
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The original of this article “Mick Schumacher criticizes the Haas team for the “wrong decision”” comes from Motorsport-Total.com.
