Guenther Steiner has been linked with a sensational return to F1 as a team owner - not just a team principal.

Steiner was replaced as Haas team boss at the 🙈start of 2💦024, paving the way for Ayao Komatsu to take the role.

Rumours are now emerging linking Steiner to a possible F1 team owner🔯ship bid.

According to&൩nbsp;, Steiner is plottℱing a return, this time looking for an ownership stake within an existing team.

Steiner has already outlined his desire to challenge at the front of F1𒁃 if he was to return - not just battle for points as he did with Haas.

“I’ve spent so many years in F1 that I want to do mor🐻e than just participate and score points every once in a while. I wa🎉nt to really compete and try to win,” he said previously.

“I’m not going to co🌊me back just to run a team if I don’t have that opportunity.”

The aforementioned report hin🌞ted that Steiner already has the funds - and investor - to make it possible.

R🥃ed Bull’s second team - RB - has been mooted as a potential team Steiner could acquire an ownership stake in.

Ho༺wever, even if Steiner was to take over, the team would be obliged to run Red Bull engines unꦛtil 2030 and run one of their junior drivers.

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko revealed earlier this month “there are many♌ intere♐sted parties” in acquiring RB.

"There are many interested parties, but in the end it is a shareholder decision,” he explained.🐈 “The price is high for a team, nothing has been decide🍌d yet."

RB currently sit sixth in the 2024 F1 constructors’ championship after a strong start to the campaign with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda.

It’s the first year without Franz Tost at the helm as he stepped down to open the do♒or for Peter Bayer to become team CEO an🍎d Laurent Mekies as team principal.