Guenther Steiner demands new F1 rule: “No owner should have two teams”

“You never get away from the suspicion that there are team orders betw🙈een teams"

Guenther Steiner
Guenther Steiner

Guen🌄ther Steiner thinks Formula 1 must introduce a new rule preventing two teams with the same owner.

However, he ac𝔉cepts a rule must be phased💯 in slowly.

Red Bull - who Steiner worked for b🍷efore becoming Haas team principal - would be most affected by his𝔍 proposed new regulation.

Red Bull have sister team RB who are also on the F1 gꦅrid, a situation which has riled some of their rivals.

“In a sport like Formula 1, no owner should have two teams,” Steiner to🅺ld the Red Fl♈ags podcast.

“You never get away from the sus🦄picion that there 𒉰are team orders between teams.

“I guꦿess we have to respect what Red Bull did at the time. I was i꧂nvolved in it, when they bought Minardi.

“F1 was struggling. Minardi was struggling, they would have gone away wi💃thout a saviཧour.

“F1 has developed a lot since those days.

“In the future, maybe there can be a🔯 fix that🤪 you’re not allowed to own two teams.

“You are not allowed to do it in football🌠, nowhere.”

But Steiner warns that the situation ca꧒nnot be changed overnight.

“It shouldn’t be as radical ౠas in th☂e Concorde Agreement. No,” he said.

“What Red Bull put into F1 to make it what it is now, itﷺ’s quite amazing.

ꦿ“So, in the end, you cannot tell them what to do♏ with their teams.

“But in the future t༺here needs to be thought about it. How can we avoid it?”

Controversy arose in Singapore when RB’s Daniel Ricciardo claimed the fastest lap꧟ bonus poiꦉnt in the closing stages.

He robbed McLaren’s Lando Norris of the bonus point which might later become crucial in the drivers’ ch⛄ampionship battle.

RB essentially aided their sister team Red Bull’s star man Max Verstappen in his quest for the F1 title b✤y depriving Norris ꦕof points.

“If Vis𓆏a Cash App♔ wasn’t owned by the same owner, nobody would have had this suspicion,” Steiner said.

“Everyone would have said it’s the last hurrah for Daniel Ri❀cciar꧟do.

“If, for example, Sauber m🦄ade the last lap. Wo🐼uld anybody have been worried? No.

“The problem ꦦis because they are owned by the same owners.”

Haas, under Steiner’s 💧leadersh🍷ip, were a customer team of Ferrari.

But they had different owners, which Stei🐲ner insists is a crucial deta🌸il.

“Times have changed. In the past if you were a customerꦬ team, you had to do what your supplier wanted,” he said.

“Nobody could tell contractually because all the contracts are with the FIA. Nobody could say ‘you need to hold up 🅰this car’🌳.

“But if you’re♛ owned by the same company it’s a different story. It’s a different level of collaboration.”

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