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Mick Schumacher Caused $1.5 Million More In Damages To Haas Than Reported In 2022

Samriddhi Jaiswal
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Mick Schumacher Caused $1.5 Million More In Damages To Haas Than Reported In 2022

Mick Schumacher was sacked by the Haas at the end of the 2022 season after he did not yield a very promising result in his 2nd year in F1.

He also became a victim of multiple crashes that cost the team a large sum of money. Earlier, it was reported that the German driver had caused $3.2 Million worth of damage in 2022.

However, as per a report published in BusinessF1, Schumacher had crossed about $5 Million in damages. He had completely written off two cars combined with plenty of other crashes.

In 2021, as well when Haas had an extremely underperforming car and Schumacher had Nikita Mazepin as a teammate, he cost the team $4.7 Million in damages.

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Haas owner disappointed with Mick Schumacher

Formula 1 runs on money and millions of dollars worth of damages are especially extremely painful for smaller teams which do not have a lot of money to spare.

Speaking about letting Schumacher go, Haas boss Gene Haas said that being a rookie in this sport is just extraordinarily expensive.

He admitted that Schumacher has a lot of potential but he also costs a fortune. Drawing parallels with Max Verstappen, Haas further added that if you bring points, if you are Verstappen and you wreck cars, the team will deal with it but not otherwise.

Nicholas Latifi stands P2 in the Destructors

Schumacher was not the only one wrecking his car on the track in the 2022 season. Mercedes’ George Russell and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen too laid out a few bills to their teams.

Although topping the list of destructors in 2022 next to Schumacher was Williams’ Nicholas Latifi. The Canadian driver cost his team a total of $2.9 Million.

P3 was held by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz who had a tough start in the first half of the season and was victim to multiple reliability issues.

The Spaniard cost the Scuderia an estimated $1.6 Million in damages in the 2022 season.

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Samriddhi Jaiswal

Samriddhi Jaiswal

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Samriddhi Jaiswal is an F1 editor and writer at The SportsRush. She started her career as a business journalist but soon found her calling in lights out here we go! Samriddhi has been a Ferrari fan even when her interaction with F1 was occasional. Her first real experience with the thrilling sport came when Charles Leclerc clinched his iconic victory in Spa and Monza and painted the track red. Now, a Tifosi, Samriddhi is a hardcore fan of the prancing horse and can relate to the chaos within the Italian camp and also admires Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher. Off the track, she finds her home in books and musical instruments.

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