Will Mick Schumacher Continue His Expensive $1 Million Street Circuit Streak at Azerbaijan GP?

Mick Schumacher is clearly a talented driver. But he has not been able to capitalize on the opportunities that have been presented to him so far. Since he entered into Formula One, at the beginning of the 2021 season, the German driver has crashed his car quite a few times.

The Haas driver has been piling up the millions of dollars for his team in repairs after his crashes. The mistakes are starting to creep up and affect his confidence in the car. He has particularly been struggling in the street circuits at F1.

How much damage has Mick Schumacher caused in the street circuits?

The German driver has crashed his Haas almost every time F1 has raced at a street circuit. Most of the time it has been his own fault, as he is determined to push the car to the limits and get the most out of it.

In Monaco GP 2021, he crashed in the FP3 session just ahead of qualifying. This meant that he had to sit out the ever-important qualifying and resulted in a repair cost of $500k. The same year in Jeddah, he once again lost the rear of the car, ending up in the barriers during the race, which meant that the team had to spend around $1 million to fix his car.

The 2022 season has been no different with Jeddah and Monaco. Only this time, the amount of $1 million for each of his crashes is much more hurting to the team because of the reduced budget cap this season.

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Mick‘s crash-happy nature does not impress anyone, especially his uncle and former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher. Ralf criticized Mick for his Monaco crash and mentioned that he was at fault for it.

Ralf criticizes his nephew for his Monaco crash

The former German driver mentioned that the error was costly for the Haas driver, as he could have scored the first points of his F1 career in Monaco. Ralf explained why Mick crashed in the mixed conditions in the race.

“Mick had a weekend to forget. The failure in the race was his fault. Others drove past this point without any problems, but not him. At first, I thought he hit the guardrail with his bike and got a slow puncture. 

“But that was not the cause of the accident. He got wet, and that’s a mistake you can’t afford to make. This is punished mercilessly, as you have seen. Not only is the whole race ruined, but a badly damaged car also has budgetary consequences for the team,” said Ralf. [Translated using Google]

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The German driver needs to start performing on race days before people start to question his seat in F1. All he needs is a clean weekend with no issues to score his first points and gain confidence.