Team race car Haas it remains a miracle bag. Team boss Gunther Steiner says: “We know we basically have a good race car, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to achieve good results at all. Like Kevin Magnussen’s fifth place in the race in Austria. However, there is no way we can deal with tires. We have a very narrow window of operation and therefore we have trouble hitting that window and staying in it as well. If we succeed in that, then we are good, if not, we regress.“This season the team Haas at that time we find in ninth place, only Williams is behind them. But a connection to the middle of the field is possible because Haas has 26 points, ahead of the teams Racing Point (31) Alfa Romeo (32) Renault (39) Toro Rosso (43). The McLaren in fourth place (82 points) is probably out of reach.
Addiction to tires, however, angers the team owner the most Gene Haas. 66 years old American says: “This is about the thermometer championship. Here we go to the game by measuring temperatures instead of racing. Our start to the season was miserable. The speed at the qualifiers fits, we are fast enough for a lap or two. But then the tires lose temperature and if that happens and if you fail to get the Pirelli tires back into the right window of operation, you’re lost. Sometimes I get the impression that it is pure luck in hitting the right tire operation window. It would be really nice if Pirelli made tires that are not so sensitive to temperatures."
Therefore Gene Haas stresses that this cannot continue in this way and colleagues from Motorsport says: “If the financial hurdle is too great, then our existence is over. Our concern for the 2021 season with the new race cars is this: How much will it cost us? Every time there is a change, it costs $ 20, $ 30, or $ 40 million. They always claim that they want to save money, but they are constantly changing something. Such as: ‘Let’s make Formula 1 more interesting and give back refueling.'”The American has concerns about whether his team will ever find itself in a position to win in Formulas 1. Australia 2016 was the first race of the American team. A good two and a half years later, the team struggled with the manufacturer Renault for fourth place among constructors. It's at the end Haas won an excellent fifth place last year.
Long-term goal Gene Haas is to win the race Formula 1. The last American team to do so was American Eagles od Dana Gurney. But here we have to travel far back, all the way to 1967 to the race for GP of Belgium. Gene Haas knows that until v Formulas 1 there will be no budget ceiling, it will be difficult to tear down the walls of the top three teams Mercedes Benz, Classic Ferrari for sale in Red Bull Racing. The American added with a sneer: "Sometimes I think to myself that we are not actually competing in Formula 1 at all, I would rather say that we are in Formula 1,5. There are races where I look at the speed of the top three and think: Wow, for God’s sake, how can we be so much slower? What are we doing wrong here?"
In the end Gene Haas it still touches on these much-mentioned budget ceilings. “Will the budget ceiling help? Maybe only if top teams will no longer be able to invest a lot of money in research and development. If one expert in our country takes care of a certain task, then at least five people do it with top teams. Personally, I’m a little confused if five people are thrown into the same job, but it seems to work. But in the whole Formula 1 system, something is really wrong if we have a two-class championship."
