Haas eager for new era after tough year

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says the tough season his team has endured makes it expressly eager well-nigh the prospects for a much increasingly competitive 2022.

New regulations were elapsed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and so 2021 saw a number of components frozen to alimony financing lanugo and help the teams survive, although new floor regulations required unrepealable changes. Haas opted versus upgrading its 2021 car in order to put its full resources into next year’s new technical rules, and Steiner says the past 12 months unliable him to prepare two rookie drivers for a largest future.

“It was a very challenging, very tough year, but going into it we knew this was coming,” Steiner said. “It didn’t disappoint with the predictions! But in the end we are scrutinizingly through it and there is light at the end of the tunnel.

“I’m very confident we can be where we were surpassing the pandemic hit us. This year was what it was — we couldn’t do a lot well-nigh it but we made the weightier out of it. I think the two drivers ripened very well, the team stayed strong, we didn’t make a lot of mistakes.

“That is what we wanted to use this year — to get ready for the future. And we are ready.”

Steiner believes both Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin benefited from the lack of scrutiny on their rookie seasons in an uncompetitive car, where mistakes were not highlighted as much as they could have been had the stakes been higher.

“When you have a situation (like 2021), you unchangingly learn increasingly from doing things wrong than doing them right. I wouldn’t say we did anything wrong, we were just in a difficult position and we unchangingly tried to get the weightier out of it, so hopefully it pays off to alimony us focused. For sure it was an wholesomeness for the drivers considering in the end they had a little bit less pressure.”