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Haas team boss Guenther Steiner continues to embrace the role, even if he says he is not an actor, of being Formula 1's fieriest team principal.
His role in the management of young Mick Schumacher during his two seasons with the US team has come under fire, especially after airing their disagreements publicly in the popular Netflix series 'Drive to Survive'.
"I don't regret what you see, I wasn't an actor, I run a team and I said what I said," he reflected, when discussing his strong criticism of Mick.
The son of the seven-time world champion was blasted by Steiner, for his costly crashes at the start of the 2022 season and for being slower than Kevin Magnussen, signed at the last minute after Nikita Mazepin's abrupt departure.
As Steiner has revealed in his new book 'Surviving to Drive', it was a crash by Schumacher on an in-lap in Japan that proved to be the final straw.
"It happened on the f***ing in-lap," Steiner said.
"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 f***ing ridiculous. How many people could we employ with 700,000 dollars? And I have to now find that money."
It is believed that, with his various crashes over the two seasons, Schumacher cost the team around two million dollars.