Former team boss Guenther Steiner has conceded he 'stayed at Haas too long' as he reflected on his departure from the Formula 1 team in January.
Following a catastrophic 2023 season, which saw Haas finish bottom of the constructors' table, the team's American owner Gene Haas ran out of patience with the lack of progress and decided not to renew Steiner's contract. In his stead, Haas promoted former trackside engineering director Ayao Komatsu to the role as team principal, with Steiner returning to the paddock in the season opener in Bahrain as a TV pundit. Writing his first column for F1.
Haas burst onto the scene in 2016 with sixth for Romain Grosjean in Australia and fifth in Bahrain in its first two grands prix, but in subsequent years it never managed to finish higher than a solitary fourth place for the Frenchman in the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix. 'With what we had, you could still fight for being seventh, eighth or ninth – but you couldn’t fight for podiums without the same weapons as the other guys', he added.
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