Haas doesn’t “rush” changes
The American team Haas has said they do not want to fall into the trap of this season: rushing the changes to try out as many things as possible.
Haas has started the 2022 season rather well, with a solid car and a strong Kevin Magnussen. However, the team is aware of the intensive efforts that its rivals will make to develop their cars.
For Günther Steiner, team principal of the American team, there is still a lot of potential to extract from the VF-22 and the development must be both reasonable and beneficial. “We will also make some modifications, but I still believe that improvements are overrated,” Steiner said.
(D) People like to hear that we are making improvements, but if you improve the aerodynamic support by one, two, or three points, how does that actually change anything? It is important to me. (F) Developed by the Italian. (D) If you ask an aerodynamic engineer, they will bring in a one-million improvement for just one point at every Grand Prix. But it has to be regulated, especially with the budget cap. (F).
« I’m not saying they are never interesting, but I think they are sometimes overrated. I want to stay calm this year, intentionally. Not because we don’t have money, but because I want to have the whole package. », delivered Günther Steiner. « We need to see if it brings a certain number of points that we can measure, and if it helps us progress without changing the balance of the car, then we will introduce it. ».
Günther Steiner was able to observe in 2019 that the efforts made in improvements could be in vain, as they reverted back to the base model at the end of the season. For now, Haas is fifth in the constructor’s standings, thanks to Kevin Magnussen’s points in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
