Mazepin and Schumacher "drinking from a water hose" with Haas - Steiner

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has described the level of experience currently being endured by Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher as like "drinking from a water hose at the moment".

Both drivers have been involved in a range of incidents and experienced a variety of conditions never normally experienced by rookies after just two races.

Despite the incredibly steep learning curve, Steiner feels it will ultimately stand them in good stead as they now have a certain knowledge to learn from and fall back on.

"The drivers are drinking from a water hose at the moment," said Steiner. "Every grand prix is bringing up something new.

"For learning it’s ideal, just learning things like the processes and how to behave in these situations.

"Once you’ve done these things once, the second time, for sure, it brings a lot less stress I would say.

"Do you want it all at the beginning? Maybe not, but if it comes, you take the experience. I think it’s a good thing all these new experiences.”

With the Iberian double-header in Portugal and Spain looming over the next two weekends, Steiner is simply hoping to see his drivers continue to develop.

Asked as to what he sees as a successful outcome from the grands prix in Portimão and Barcelona, Steiner replied: “Nothing different from the first two races.

"Get as much experience as possible, get both drivers to the finish in both races, keep learning and increase their race knowledge in Formula 1.

"The target has not changed, we just keep our heads down and learn as much as possible.”

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