Todt straight leg: “Mick Schumacher is stronger than half the grid”

According to Todt, Schumi junior is too kind

Mick Schumacher he debuted in F1 in 2021 after winning the F2 championship in 2020. The German driver also raced for Haas in 2022, a season in which he had some performance peaks especially in Austria when he finished the GP in sixth position after eighth place obtained in Great Britain in the previous event. At the end of 2022, however, he did not obtain confirmation in the team then managed by Gunther Steiner, who never had kind words for Mick Schumacher, who was also the protagonist of numerous accidents that were difficult to manage on an economic level for a company like Haas.

In the winter of 2023, Mercedes made Mick Schumacher’s arrival at Mercedes official as a reserve and development driver and from this year the German is also part of Alpine as regards the WEC program in the Hypercar class. The desire of the class of 1999 is obviously to return to having a place in F1, but second Jean Todt there are several factors that do not help Michael’s son: “I don’t know if Mick is one of the best riders around – the words of Todt interviewed by the German newspaper Sports Bild – but he’s better than half the Formula 1 drivers. Maybe Mick is too kind, in F1 you have to stick your elbows out.”

“In this world you either bite or get bitten“he actually recalled Carlos Sainz, words that his father had said to him when in karting he was targeted by his rivals at the door level. According to Todt, the surname is currently a disadvantage for Mick Schumacher: “Many think it is an advantage, but it has become a disadvantage. The expectations placed on him were unreasonable and the car was not competitive. He has never been able to show his potential. The pressure he was subjected to was unfair. And I know, because I was also team principal, that a driver’s performance suffers immediately if he doesn’t feel comfortable.”