Haas will not develop current season's F1 car to focus on next
Feb.5 - Team boss Gunther Steiner says Haas will not develop its 2021 car.
"Our goal is to get back to where we were in 2018," he told the German broadcaster n-tv.
Haas has replaced both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean with rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for the new season.
He doubts the move will backfire on the small American outfit.
"If they fight without damaging the team, I have no problem with that," said Steiner.
But they will be fighting with a car that will not be developed throughout the season, he warned.
"It will be a year of transition," said Steiner. "From next week, we will only work in the wind tunnel for 2022. If everything doesn't go wrong, we won't do anything with the 2021 car."
Nonetheless, he hopes Haas will not finish dead-last this year.
"It would be ideal to leave Alfa Romeo and Williams behind us. But that will be difficult. It will be a fight like last year," said Steiner.
"Our engine will certainly be better, Alfa has that too but maybe we can catch up with Williams. Otherwise there is not much more that is possible at the moment because we were just too far away last year," he added.
"For me it would be a success if at the end of the year we have two drivers who have learned a lot and are ready for 2022 so that we won't make any more mistakes."
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Great team motivator, "let's try to not finish last."
Putting the Russian kid in the only American F1 team Chaps my hide! Every young American driver that’s been through the program and done well has been denied a ride! Haas can go to hell!
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I understand however The teams that manufacture sports cars and other cars would do well to sponsor an American driver after all they sell most of there cars in the United States
I understand however The teams that manufacture sports cars and other cars would do well to sponsor an American driver after all they sell most of there cars in the United States
its a fair comment , except there are very few American drivers that are good enough, , only Mario A , really made an impact i think
C'mon, you nasty old Brit :-), Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Peter Revson, Richie Ginther, Mark Donohue were all impact drivers, and there are a couple of young guys currently in IndyCar who are faster than 4-6 current F1 drivers.
Phil Hill won the Championship in 61’ Gurney came in second in 67’
Someones been on Wikipedia then.....some posters slagged off jos vers...... a while back but like i said then , he managed 9 seasons , i believe none of the above lasted that long did they, and 2nd point, if those " couple of guys" are faster then why havnt they done f1 tests, , its not being nasty , im just stating a fact, you dont have to like it ,
i apologize, i am being a bit off/inaccurate with the lack of impact comment, yes some of the above ,..... after checking on wiki " as we all do these days so not to rose tint our opinions " did have fair results in f1,so apologies for that
I grew up watching those guys no need for me to go to Wiki the last American to drive a full season was Scott Speed
It does seem early to throw in the towel. At least they will get lots of wind tunnel time in 2022.