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With Mick Schumacher on a final warning with his team boss, Ralf Schumacher has slated Guenther Steiner’s draconian management style.

Steiner has been Mick’s boss ever since he joined the Formula 1 grid in 2021.

But while last season the German was the golden boy, comfortably quicker than his team-mate Nikita Mazepin, this season he has been out-paced and out-shone by the returning Kevin Magnussen.

To make matters worse, he has yet to score a point while his Jeddah and Monaco crashes have left Haas with a $2 million dollar repair bill.

It is safe to say that Steiner is not impressed and, in the build up to the Baku Grand Prix weekend, issued his driver a final warning.

“It’s just not possible to continue like this,” Steiner said as per Motorsport.com, “and he knows that.”

He added: “I think there’s a lot of things going on, but there is not one simple answer. We need to see how we go forward. There’s a lot of things we have to sort out now.”

But while the team boss says he has not been lecturing the 23-year-old as that would be counter productive, his uncle still feels the Italian’s “extremely authoritarian” management style isn’t helping the situation.

The former driver turned pundit told F1-Insider.com: “Steiner’s style makes it difficult for the drivers.

“He has an extremely authoritarian leadership style that I remember from my active Formula 1 days. But today it is no longer up-to-date.”

He added: “Both made mistakes, both