Guenther Steiner believes that he st♎ayed at Haas for too long.

The pღopular team principal surprisingly left his job before the start of the F1 2024 season.

He cited dis♛agreements over money and investment with team owner Gene Haas for the⛦ reason that his expiring contract was not renewed.

Steiner has now made an admission about his near-decade with the US-o🔯w💟ned F1 team.

“Life has 🐓been good since I left Haas ahe꧂ad of this season,” he wrote for.

“These last few weeks are the first time I’🧸ve switched off from F1 for around a decade. This time has been good🐲 for me.

“The longer time g🐲oes on, the more I can see that I stayed at Haas too long.

“When you st🍸ep away, you get clarity – and you can see what you need to do. While y🌌ou’re there, you’re in denial, you think you can do it but you cannot.

“When I was t🌳here, with what we had, you could still fight for being seventh, eighth or ninth – but you couldn’t fight for podiums without the same weapons as the other guys.

“Doing that in the long-term is not what I want to do in life. Iꩲ don’t want to be seventh again. I’v💦e done that. I want to be able to fight, to battle at the front.

“When Toto Wolfﷺf started with Mercedes, the team at the time was not at the top.

“Yes, they had the advantage of the engine at the beginning, but he set everything up right to be success𒊎ful in the mid-term – and they won eight💜 constructors’ championships.

“It’s the same thing with Red Bull. How long did it tak𓃲e for them to get there?

“Every year, they kept on getti🧸ng better. You need that patience and lo♌ng-term planning.

“I would come back to F1 in the future, but🅘 it needs to be the right project, don💛e right.”

Steiner was replaced as Haas tea🃏m principal by Ayao Komatsu, a move which brings his engineering expertise to the forefront of ꩲthe team.

Driver Kevin Magnussen said about the change of boss: “I don't want to co💮mpare to Guenther all the time, because that is in the past.

"We're just looking ahead and I think the atmosphere in the team is very healthy at the m🅠oment, the engineers are super-motivated.

"I feel🅷 in the garage, there's a fresh outlook, a fresh start in a way and that has given everyone a bit of hope and a bit of a boost, feeling like this is a new opportunity."

Haas finished ✨bottom of the♕ F1 constructors’ championship twice in the past three years.

Steiner has insisted that he requested investment from Gene𒁃 Haas which ultimately spelled the end of his tenure.