Mick Schumacher explains the Monaco Grand Prix crash that snapped his car in half
dailystar.co.ukSchumacher once again struggled this season when his Monte-Carlo race ended prematurely. The 23-year-old clipped a barrier on entry to the Swimming Pool Section and fortunately avoided serious injury after slamming into the wall.
The gearbox, which caused the race to be red-flagged, broke off the back of his Haas machinery after he hit the barrier and slid into the Tecpro barrier in the exit.
Schumacher’s chassis is currently being repaired at the Haas factory, but his Ferrari power unit is still reportedly useable.The German appeared to be totally dumbfounded as to why he suddenly lost control in the principality, while his engineer suggested he may have tapped the barrier immediately before the incident and broken something.
However, Schumacher confirmed this was not the case as he simply went wide at Tabac and cooled his right hand tyres on a wet puddle on the track.“Basically I mean the whole track was quite damp in parts,” Schumacher said when asked by Motorsport.com about what the data had revealed. “And some others were quite dry.“We came a bit wide in Turn 12 [Tabac] which cooled down the right hand side.
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