Guenther Steiner tells Alpine not to sign Mick Schumacher: “You need to get the best driver”

Guenther Steiner has told Alpine not to sign🥂 Mick Schumacher for 2025 alongside Pierrꦕe Gasly.

(L to R): Guenther Steiner (ITA) Haas F1 Team Prinicipal with Mick Schumacher (GER) Haas F1
(L to R): Guenther Steiner (ITA) Haas F1 Team Prinicipal with Mick Schumacher (GER) Haas F1

Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has advised Alpine not to sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mick Schumacher as a possible replacement for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon.

On Monday, Alpine announced they will “part ways” wit💫h Ocon at the end of t꧋he season.

A host of names have been linked with the vaca💝nt seat, including junior dri💮ver Jack Doohan.

Sauber driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas has also been mentioned, while Schu🍬macher - who currently races for Alpine in the World Enduran𒁏ce Championship - is an outside candidate for the drive.

Schumacher drove under Steiner for two years at Haas before being dropped for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg.

The pair had a fractious relationship with Schumacher c𒁏laiming he didn’t have the full support of Steiner.

Steiner grew frustrated with Schumacher’s number of hig🐠h-profile shunts and the interference of his entourage, particularly through the German press.

, Steiner suggested Alpine should look at either 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz or 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda, while dismissing any suggestions of signing Schumacher alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly.

“In th🀅e moment not, no,” he said. “You need to get the best driver you know is out there. I think people whiಌch are showing that they’re very good. And as a works team, you need to do the best you can.”

In terms of Ocon, he’s been linked w🧜ith possible moves to H🐎aas or Audi.

Esteban Ocon (FRA) Alpine F1 Team A524. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 8, Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, Monaco,
Esteban Ocon (FRA) Alpine F1 Team A524. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 8, Monaco Grand Prix,…

Steiner was asked for his view Oco𝔍n in the🅠 wake of the Frenchman’s clash with Gasly in Monaco.

“Obviously you❀ think about it, absolutely you think about it, because it’s just something ♒you don’t want,” he added

“And🦋 I always say, team-mates don’t need to be the best friends, they don’t need to go out for dinner, but they need to respect each other.  Because in the end, but it’s generally in life, you need to respect other people.

“If you don’t like to💃 drive with this guy in yourꦉ team, just go somewhere else.  If I don’t like to be somewhere, I move on. I’m not trying to fight it at the cost of somebody else, which is the team.

“So one of them should have said, ‘I cannot be in the team with ♏this other guy’, and somebody else maybe should have seen that.  Everybody knows about the history of the two of them and even their parents apparently, they had to keep them apart.

“That’s not what you want when you’r𝐆e going, ‘Oh, we will be teammates, yeah it’s all good, we just fought the last 20 years, but now that’s all good’, you knܫow?"

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