Williams boss James Vowles has apologised to Mick Schumacher after saying the son of seven-times world champion and Ferrari nice, Michael, was good however “not particular.”

Vowles made the touch upon Friday in explaining why Williams had most well-liked Argentine F2 racer Franco Colapinto over the extra skilled Mercedes reserve as a substitute for dropped American Logan Sargeant.

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“In the beginning, I am not right here to place Mick down,” Vowles instructed F1 tv.

“Mick is in a world championship staff which have chosen him as a reserve driver, and there is good motive behind it. It is as a result of he is an extremely robust candidate.

“The phrase particular, I used it within the context of a number of world champions like Ayrton Senna, Lewis [Hamilton] as nicely. Clearly that is a silly factor to do, as a result of that is the comparability.”

Schumacher was dropped by Haas after two seasons and on the finish of 2022.

He has now been handed over by Mercedes, Renault-owned Alpine — with whom he has raced in world endurance — and Williams after they had F1 vacancies to fill.

Vowles stated Williams’ determination was as a result of they wished to make use of a driver from their very own academy and he had apologised personally to Schumacher.

“He did not request something, however it’s essential to me, as a result of he is extremely near me and it simply got here throughout totally the fallacious means,” he stated. “Greater than the rest, I wished that to be abundantly clear.”