schumacher just 10 centimeters off-line before crash

The Haas suburbanite exited the first part of the Swimming Pool ramified and appeared to be in tenancy but then lost the rear midway towards the second section and spun to the inside of the track. Running on slick tires with one dry line, he hit the Tecpro windbreak nonflexible on the outside and saw the rear end unravel yonder completely from the car.

“I’m feeling alright,” Schumacher said. “Obviously it’s very annoying. I think in terms of pace we were definitely there, it’s just a matter of keeping it on track and unfortunately I wasn’t worldly-wise to do that.

“The pace felt strong and it felt like we were worldly-wise to wade and push, but unfortunately we just ended up stuff a bit too wide which was maybe a matter of 10 centimeters at the end and that’s unbearable to lose all grip that you thought you had and unfortunately the result is as it happened.”

Teammate Kevin Magnussen had retired just a few laps earlier, with a water leak on the ERS to blame, but team principal Guenther Steiner appeared unhappy well-nigh flipside big crash that will leave Haas with a hefty repair bill.

“It was a disappointing day today,” Steiner said. “Kevin’s car was really fast, we were just waiting for our opportunity to pass Bottas at the pit stop, either under or over wearing to get by him and ventilator the field. He could hands follow him. He then had an issue with a water leak on his ERS system.

“With Mick we obviously saw what happened. It’s not very satisfactory having a big crash again. We need to see how we move forward from here.”

Magnussen himself agrees with Steiner that Haas could have been fighting for points but for the reliability problems.

“We had power unit issue of some sort, so we had to retire the car – there was nothing we could do well-nigh that sadly,” Magnussen said. “I really thought our pace in the race was good considering we were on a full wet on a dry line, I had been worldly-wise to alimony Gasly overdue until our issue and I was latter on Bottas.

“It would have been really heady virtually the pit stops to see what could have happened. It’s unfortunate with no points today plane though I think we had the car to do it, we knew we could fight.”