Formula 1 driver Mick Schumacher came out of it mercifully when he crashed hard during qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix last Saturday, but his car appeared ripe for the local scrap yard after its hard confrontation with the wall along the track in Jeddah.
The damage, Haas team principal Günther Steiner estimated, could run into $1 million. So about 900,000 euros. “The engine, I was told by Ferrari, seems to be in order and the batteries too. But the rest is broken.”
More than 250 km/h
No surprise to those who saw the crash. All corners of Schumacher’s VF-22 were dealt a hard blow after the 23-year-old German lost control of the car at a speed of more than 250 kilometers per hour. And when the wreck was lifted by track marshals, the gearbox fell off again.
