Norbert Vettel about Günther Steiner and Mick Schumacher - during FP3 at Sky Germany:
"When you read: 'Mick costs us millions'... that's bullshit, yeah. The millions they've spent, they've blown themselves. From strategy and whatever. He can't just dish it out, you have to be able to take it. And that's always the problem: They never want to take it, it's always the guy between the steering wheel and the engine who suffers, I say so."
„Wenn du dann liest: ‚Der Mick kostet uns Millionen‘… das ist ja Blödsinn, ja. Die Millionen wo sie verballert haben, haben sie selber verhauen. Vom Strategischem und was auch immer was. Er kann nicht nur austeilen, man muss auch einstecken können. Und das ist immer das Problem: Die wollen nie einstecken, immer der zwischen Lenkrad und Motor ist der Leidtragende, sag ich jetzt mal.“
As a grown man, you don't treat a young person like this. Everyone has to deal with pressure in Formula 1 but that was just too much. I believe – and that's what bothers me the most – if my brother had been there, Günther Steiner would have behaved differently. Mick is family, you have to understand me. I don't like when my family is treated like this.
Ralf Schumacher about Günther Steiner’s treatment of Mick
a portion of Günther's comments the FIA claim break the Sporting Regulations:
“Do we need a different system for the stewards?” Steiner asked. “Because every professional sport has got professionals being referees and stuff like this. F1 is one of the biggest sports in the world and we still have laymen deciding on the fate of people that invest millions in their careers. It’s always a discussion because there’s no consistency.
“I don’t want to blame any particular person on this, but if they’re not all there all the time then this is just like a job every…. It’s not even a job, because in a job you can get sacked because you get paid, and if you do a bad job you get sacked. You cannot get sacked because you do not get paid. I think we need to step it up.
“I think it’s now time. We’ve been discussing this for years and years and we always go back to this. Every other sport has professional referees, American racing — NASCAR, IndyCar, how many times do you hear problems with the stewards or with the race director’s decisions? Very rarely. But they are doing it completely differently, there are full-time people working there.
“I’m always saying ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ not that I have to prove that I was innocent, because that doesn’t work for me — that’s not how I look at life.”
steiner talking about how fans would love hulk and kmag in a team together is insane. you know what the fans would love? mick schumacher staying in f1.