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Guenther Steiner addresses Drive to Survive exaggerating Mick Schumacher tensions

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has admitted that informing Mick Schumacher that he was going to be dropped wasn't 'a nice thing to do', but that ultimately 'you cannot beat up a dead horse'. Towards the end of last season, it was expected that Schumacher's contract wasn't going to be extended beyond 2022, with Nico Hulkenberg having been widely discussed as his replacement. Schumacher's exit from Haas was confirmed before the season finale in Abu Dhabi, as was the signing of Hulkenberg. Steiner discussed the process of sacking Schumacher and actually suggested that the young German knew what was coming, with him being a 'clever kid'. READ: Mark Webber makes Fernando Alonso retirement...
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