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Now that Haas are back in the fight, team boss Guenther Steiner says Mick Schumacher must handle the pressure that goes with that.

2021 was Schumacher’s rookie campaign in Formula 1, though driving a Haas VF-21 that had not and would not be developed, he spent most of the season at the back of the grid with little expectation.

For that season he was alongside another rookie in Nikita Mazepin, but the situation has shifted drastically for 2022.

Haas came out of the blocks as a leading team in the midfield, while Mazepin was replaced by the returning Kevin Magnussen, who had previously spent four seasons with Haas between 2017-2020.

Two rounds in and it has been Magnussen doing the points scoring with P5 and P9 finishes, while Schumacher fortunately walked away from a huge qualifying crash in Saudi Arabia without injury, with car damage ruling him out of that race.

So, the pressure is on now for Schumacher, with Steiner explaining that his driver must cope with it.

“Obviously now the target is set a little bit higher than last year,” Steiner is quoted by Motorsport.com.

“Last year there was no question at all, we contended to be 19th and 20th. Because that was where we were – consistently, by