The unpublished camera that showed how Mick Schumacher experienced the hard accident and the millionaire expense that Haas will have to repair the car

During the last Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the hearts of all spectators stopped as Mick Schumacher suffered a accident during qualifiers. The Haas car was destabilized on one of the pianos at Turn 12 of the Jeddah Circuit and the German driver completely lost control of the vehicle causing virtually total destruction. Fortunately, the son of the seven-time Formula 1 champion suffered no physical consequences and everything was left in a huge scare.

What the American team will have to take care of is to repair the car for the next race, since the crash broke a large part of the vehicle's components. Gunther Steiner, head of the team, stated that only the chassis and engine were not taken out of service. The amount that they will have to disburse to fix it would range from 500,000 to one million dollars. “Of course we need a proper overhaul of the chassis, but it doesn't look too bad to be honest. The engine too. I heard from Ferrari that it looks good. The battery, too. But everything else is broken,” he revealed.

He added about the budget that they will have to spend on repairs: “I think the cost will be quite high because the suspension is gone, except for the front left. I think there's still something there. The rest is just coal dust. I don't have a budget, but between all the gearbox, the bodywork, the radiators, I would say 500 thousand to one million dollars,” he told the specialized media The Race.

Haas' concern is that the loss consumes a significant portion of the team's budget, which is now a cause for attention due to the limited spending ceiling of the category. “You obviously have a contingency there. But if you have two or three problems like that, quickly your contingency is gone. It's a loss. You just have to manage. Obviously we don't expect to have many more,” Steiner closed in the hope of not having more economic relapses in the short term.

Mick's impact had been so violent that all the communication components had stopped working immediately and they aroused great concern: “We didn't talk to him on the radio because with the coup everything digital broke. We didn't know anything, but then we got the message that I was aware, which was the most important thing. And then, when he got out of the car, we were told he didn't have any external injuries. He went on the piano and then lost the car. You're going too fast. We lost all the data on impact and didn't have any contact with him. Everything was cut off,” Steiner himself had said on Saturday.

It is worth remembering that the 22-year-old driver, who lives with his second season in Formula 1, had managed to get around Q1 and was positioned in 9th place in Q2 with about five minutes left until the end of the phase. Mick lost control at turn 12 and hit the wall. The image was striking: the vehicle lost two tires and was destroyed on one side, but it broke definitively when a tow truck lifted it to remove it from the circuit.

Although on the day of qualifying the official broadcast avoided showing the scene in the foreground, they only gave a repeat of the accident at the time when it was confirmed that Schumacher was already in good health. The on-board camera, which showed the reactions of the Haas rider, could only be seen on Sunday minutes before the start of the Saudi Arabian GP.

The son of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion did not race on Sunday and now expect to have his car in condition ahead of the Australian Grand Prix which will be held on Sunday, April 10 and will mark the third date of the world calendar.

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