Haas blasted for a lack of ambition - “Aspirations? I don’t see it”
Eddie Jordan calls🐓 out Gene Haas for not having "aspiration" to win an F꧋1 grand prix
The Haas F1 team have🔴 been criticised for a lack of perceived ambition by Eddie🔥 Jordan.
The US-based team 🧔are in their ninth season in Formula 1 ai♊ming to rebound from finishing bottom of the 2023 constructors’ championship.
Guenther S🍌tei♔ner surprisingly left his job as team principal over the winter, citing the owner Gene Haas’ unwillingness to invest.
Ex-F1 team owner Jordan said on the podcast: “If it was me, and I was there, I’d cast my attention to the engineering, the speed of the ca🌊r, the ability to💜 do the job.
“Nico Hulkenberಌg and Kevin Magnussen in particular - I worked with him just after the Jordan era - are talented drivers who can do the job. No issue there.
“The issue is the commitment to the job in hand.
“They’ve been there for a 🙈long time, in Formula 1, and I haven’t seen the ꦛteam move forward.
“Aspirations of winning a 🐻grand prix? I don’t see it.
“Whether it’s p♍ersonnel or the second-hand Ferrari engine…
“But you’d rather have the Ferrari engine than the Renault engine in the Alpine, 💃that’s for sure.
“A lot comes down to aero, and to Gene Haas puttꦯing the r✃ight guys in place. He hasn’t done that yet.
“The car in race trim see🤪ms okay. But in qualifying? They are given no c𒈔hance.
“The car is just marginally💧 better ❀than the Alpine.”
David Coulthard added: “There is definitᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚely room for improvem🐲ent.”
Ayao Komatsu is the new Haas team principal this ye�𝐆�ar, replacing Steiner.
His appointment is a piv♚ot to an engineering-based boss, rather than the business savvy of Steiner.
A ray of li꧑ght at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix last weekend saw Hulkenberg finish in P10 after an impressive qualifying performance.
Steiner detailed the financial disagreement with owner Gene Ha𒉰as that led to his dep♑arture.
He said: ❀“You could see all the other teams, when the budget cap came into place, everybody else invested their money into the i♋nfrastructure of the company just to move forwards.
“We didn’t do that.
“A⛄t some stage, you needജ to say what you think about things.
“Obviously I don’t own the teamꦕ. I can’t make these decisions. I haven’t got the money.
“Gene wants to do it his way.
“Obviously he didn’t like what I had to say.
“Therefore my contract wasn’t extended. I was okay with ꦡit.🌃”
James was a sports🎃 journalist a💖t Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
