Schumacher enjoyed 'crooked fight' with Verstappen in Hungary
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It was a chaotic race in Hungary for everyone, even the drivers who normally drive on their own. Williams even scored points with two cars, while Mick Schumacher in a Haas also competed for a long time. He even fought with Max Verstappen for a while.
This happened just after the restart of the race, which was created by the crash of Valtteri Bottas and many others. As a result, Verstappen dropped to the back of the field and had to play catch-up with a broken car. During that race, he met Schumacher. Schumacher thought it was fantastic, he says to Motorsport Magazin.
"It was nice to fight with Max like that. But of course, the situation was crooked because his car had suffered a lot of damage. So it wasn't completely fair. Of course, it was good for us to be in the situation and feel for the first time what it is like to be in the middle of the fight and try to defend your position."
Schumacher secretly hoped for points
Because anything was possible on Sunday. However, Haas is still, and also the only constructor, on zero points. Nevertheless, Schumacher did at one point think about a top ten.
"I always hope, but I think realistically it was difficult. The others had a faster car, of course. We needed a delta of about 1.4 seconds so they couldn't overtake me. We were always close, but soon there was a mistake, that was it. Then we were out and they got their chance."
It remains to be seen whether Schumacher will have another chance like this to get into the top 10 this year. You could almost argue that the German had his best chance last weekend.