F1 Gossip: Haas sees 'greater potential' in wide sidepod design

In the latest Formula 1 gossip column, Haas team boss Guenther Steiner thinks the wide sidepod design has ‘greater potential’ as opposed to Mercedes and Williams’ slimmer concepts.
F1 Gossip: Haas sees 'greater potential' in wide sidepod design

- Speaking to German publication , Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner said that the team trialled the slimm🌞er sidepod concept in the wind tunnel but opted for a wider design after seeing ‘greater potential’.

He said: “This exact con🅘cept was our first design. We had it in the wind tu♍nnel last July, and we already noticed there that it gives advantages in slow corners. But as an overall package, we saw greater potential in wide sidepods.”

- Toto Wolff has shed ❀light on a heated discussion with Lewis Hamilton at his home in 2♏016 improved their relationship.

He told : “We kind of went into this discussion at loggerheads and then, after four or five hours in the kitchen, we found ourselves on a totally different 🍃level. A purely business-related reওlationship had become a personal relationship. He’s a friend.

 “That doesn’t mean we don’t argue anymore but now, Lewis’s success is the team’s success🦹, and the team’s success is Lewis’s success.”

- In🃏 the same interview, Wolff opened up about his own mental💙 health issues.

“High profile people who seem to have everything but are struggling, I think we have an obli🎃gation to say we’re getting help and it’s ok t𓂃o get help,” he added. “I’ve been going to a psychiatrist since 2004. I think I’ve had more than 500 hours [of therapy]. I have suffered mentally and I still do.

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- F1 returnee Kevin Magnussen has admitted𝔍 that his ‘biggest worry’ on 🔴his return to the sport is finishing the first race at Sakhir.

In an interview on , he said: “Our objectives for this weekend are – first of all with these new cars 𒊎- my biggest worry is not finishing the race. I think it’s important to get off to a solid start rather than an explosiveꦗ one.” 

- Pierre Gasly expects there to be surpris🀅es in F1 2022 but the top teams to keep their advantage. ().

 

 

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