Gunther Steiner has hit back hard at axed Haas driver Mick Schumacher’s outspoken uncle Ralf. “We didn’t play any game for three months that we knew what we were doing and didn’t tell him,” Steiner told Sport Bild, having signed up 35-year-old Nico Hulkenberg to replace Schumacher next year. “Of course he had suspected something – he doesn’t live behind the moon,” Steiner said. But he also lashed out at Mick’s uncle Ralf Schumacher, a former F1 driver who is now an outspoken pundit for German television Sky Deutschland. According to Steiner, Ralf wanted to “cause a public fight”. “My decision was certainly not influenced by Ralf’s behaviour.”.

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