Guenther Steiner In Hot Water Over Mick Schumacher Comment: "Just Embarrassing At This Point"

Haas team principal, Guenther Steiner's latest comments in his book blaming former driver Mick Schumacher for costing the team $2,000,000 through his off-track excursions have caused uproar among fans.

The Haas F1 Team Principal Guenther Steiner and Mercedes Reserve Driver Mick Schumacher have both made headlines recently after the former's book was released to the public. Steiner was quick to comment on how much the young German driver cost the team while he raced for them, and fans took it personally.

The American-owned team hired Schumacher last year, but he was swiftly deemed to be unnecessary by Steiner who had his eye on the American driver Logan Sergeant. Things got difficult between the two, and fans could sense the thick tension emanating from the pair during the latest series of Drive to Survive. Steiner blamed Schumacher for the team's failure and waited until the end of the season to retire him from the team, leaving him with few options. 

Now, Schumacher is under the wing of Toto Wolff at Mercedes, and while you'd expect the story to be over, it has only continued as we started to dig into Steiner's book.

“It happened on the foking in-lap,” Steiner wrote. “On the in-lap! Sure, it was very wet out there on the track, but nobody else managed to write off a car while they were driving back to the pits.

“We lose a car after five minutes and now have to build another. I cannot have a driver who I am not confident can take a car around safely on a slow lap. It’s just foking ridiculous. How many people could we employ with $700,000?”

In total, Steiner admitted that Mick cost them $2 million via his incidents, but while this is fair reasoning for letting a driver go, fans of the son of Michael were quick to call Steiner "embarrassing" for his "obsession" with Mick. Here are some of the best comments:

interesting how Mick hasn't said a single bad word about Haas & GS (even though he got fired in a hotel lobby), while his former team principle keeps talking about him https://t.co/AahHT6k2ax

— r. (@meingoat) April 10, 2023

nobody else's car fucking fell apart at any slight inconvenience either though
M.S sponsors alone were worth $15m and his points were worth $11m
No other T.P chats shit like this either man, give it a rest https://t.co/R7yKIvCpGc

— 𝐫𝐢𝐳 ⚔️ (@llaughtracks) April 10, 2023

Rent free. https://t.co/oyQWebstwY

— Henry (@Henwperry) April 10, 2023

personally if i was mick, i would’ve crashed the car one more time during abu dhabi as a goodbye gift https://t.co/6L62OdescG

— 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚🇵🇸🍉🦋 | missing renjun😣 (@avocaedoes) April 10, 2023

Haas has a long list of drivers who used to do the same if not worse but he is constantly talking about Mick...I call that obsession your honor https://t.co/3ERF6bZ4PP

— Yass ❤︎ ིྀ (@byunhabibi) April 10, 2023

the funniest part is that the suzuka crash wasn't even 100% mick's fault because his race engineer told him to keep pushing a high delta 😭 whether you like him or not, steiner running his mouth is just embarrassing at this point. https://t.co/2FEkwjUefS

— annie thee scorpio (@ricciardoroy) April 10, 2023

I don’t think Mick is at Mercedes complaining about Steiner! this old man has lost the plot! https://t.co/niOZTOtegj

— Scuderia (@Cybernetcrumbs) April 10, 2023

Ai coming from a team that employed mazepin? https://t.co/UXDJy6xg5y

— alep (@alifimrannn) April 10, 2023

its just bullying now, gunthers a prick https://t.co/X9gENTi2Jn

— James (@ImissXNDA) April 10, 2023