Norbert Haug admits Schumacher’s qualifiers run has not been great in 2011 season so far – Formula 1
Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug has admitted that the team’s driver Michael Schumacher seems to struggle with his MGP-W02 car during the qualifying rounds in the 2011 Formula 1 season so far.
Haug added that the German’s Qualifier performance was not good from the start of the ongoing season.
The team boss insisted that despite another disappointing 2011 season after 2010, Schumacher is still looking forward to show his best performance on the grid after coming back from his three-year retirement.
After coming back to the sport, the seven-time world champion is still not able to finish a single race on the podium. He is at the 10th place with 32 points in the 2011 drivers’ championship after completing 11 rounds of the ongoing season.
Haug said, “If we had told you at our presentation 'well, wait and see, it's gonna end the year with fourth place'. This cannot be true'. So I do not make announcements or noises, but we are working very hard and this is just the medicine for us that make
us work more and even harder.”
He added, “So of course, we expected more, but can you be depressed afterwards? Of course you can, but we're aware of telling ourselves fairy tales, so we're working even harder, we have to have a disciplined approach to it, we have to take the right decisions,
we need to understand the car...”
Apart from that, Haug stated that if they look at the overtaking statistics of all drivers in the season so far, Schumacher is leading ahead of all. In addition, he mentioned that nobody has overtaken more than him during the season’s races, not even the
leading driver Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel.
He also talked about the 42-year-old driver’s teammate Nico Rosberg. Haug said that it is a fact he gave better results to them in the ongoing season’s races as compared to Schumacher, but his race pace was not more than the world champion.
Despite the disappointing start to the 2011 Formula 1 season, the Petronas-sponsored team is hoping for better results in the last eight rounds.
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