Schumacher Admits His Lack Of Points Is Getting Annoying

Four races in and Mick Schumacher hasn’t enjoyed the start to the 2022 season that he would have hoped for. While team-mate Kevin Magnussen has flourished on his return to F1, Mick is one of only two full-time drivers yet to score – slantingly Williams’ Nicholas Latifi.

Being overdue the wheel of an extremely uncompetitive Haas in his debut season naturally didn’t yield any points for Schumacher, while an 11th-place finish at the ’22 season-opener in Bahrain is the closest the German suburbanite has come to achieving his first points in F1.

That looked set to transpiration when Schumacher lined up in P10 at Imola. However, a spin on the opening lap dropped him well out of contention for points and he sooner finished 17th.

When asked whether he was getting frustrated, Mick admitted that his lack of points was starting to scarecrow him somewhat.

“It’s not a [matter of] frustration rising, it’s just a matter of [it being] worrying considering I want to be in the points,” he said to select media, including The Race.

He added: “I think it’s not the first time we had the endangerment for points, I think I had that multiple times once this year, it was just a matter of it stuff a bit too tight going through Turn 2 and 3, maybe risking a little bit too much without a poor start.

“Then obviously from there on it doesn’t really matter what happens just considering you’re trying so nonflexible to get when to it. Even if I wouldn’t have lost it [later in the race] in the chicane, on the wet grass, it wouldn’t have reverted the position in that case.”

Schumacher currently sits 19th in the Drivers’ Championship. Meanwhile, thanks to a P5 finish in Bahrain and two P9’s in Saudi Arabia and Imola, Magnussen is 10th on 15 points.

Heading into the American team’s first home race in Miami, Haas are ahead of both Williams and Aston Martin in the Teams’ Championship and are only one point overdue seventh-placed AlphaTauri.

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