No Upgrades for Mick Schumacher: Gunther Steiner reveals Haas giving up 2021 season

No Upgrades for Mick Schumacher: Gunther Steiner reveals Haas giving up 2021 season

Mick Schumacher and Guenther Steiner

Mick Schumacher and Guenther Steiner

Mick Schumacher is surely not on any verge to have an easy time in the Formula 1 by any means. Representing team Haas, Mick will have ample amount of time to learn and develop himself against the big guns. Team Boss Gunther Steiner revealed that the team has already given up on the 2021 season and the car is not being developed any further, even when it hasn’t been unveiled officially. 

According to Gunther Steiner as per Motor Sport, it has been decided to discontinue the development of the VF-21 before the first test and to concentrate fully on the new regulations from 2022. Steiner points out that there will be only 23 races in 2021, but from 2022 there will be “hundreds” under the new regulations, which will take effect from next year. 

“If we find things in the test [in Bahrain] that don’t work, then of course we’ll fix them. But at the moment there are no plans to bring upgrades or anything. From now on, we will focus on 2022,” Steiner announces. Haas is deliberately announcing the 2021 season. 

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“I think most people will doit,” Steiner said, explaining that it would be “very difficult” to catch up with the 2020 season in 2021 

Steiner explains, “You would have to put a lot of work into it and would neglect the future.” Haas finished the 2020 season in ninth and penultimate place with only three World Cup points. The US force does not seem to believe that things could fare much better in 2021 under these circumstances. 

“We need to see the bigger picture in the medium to long term,” he says. As a result, Haas even risks slipping to the last World Cup spot in 2021. Because Williams wasn’t that far away last year. “There is this risk, but we have to live with it,” said Steiner, who is aware of the danger. 

A crash to the last World Cup place would bring the team important prize money. But according to Steiner, the switch to the new regulations from 2022 is so important that you would accept it yourself. “With the aero restrictions and the budget cap, it’s very difficult to catch up [from 2022],” he said. 

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