Haas boss Gunther Steiner insists Ferrari’s in🔯creasingly closer ties to the rebranded Alfa Romeo squad has no effect on his Formula 1 team. 

Sa🎀uber has been renamed Alfa Romeo Racing for the upcoming 2019 season after the Italian car manufacturer increased its involvement in F1, having struck up a title sponsor partnership with the Swiss squad last year. 

While the move strengthens the relationship between Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, fellow Ferrari-powered outfit Haas is not concerned by suggestions it could lose out in its own far-reaching 𓆏collaboration with the Scuderia. 

Asked if the changes had affected Haas at all, Steiner said: “No. Absolutely not.💫 

“It’s a question a lot of people ask ไme, but we’ve got a very solid relationship with them, technically, humanly, financially,” he added. 

“They respect us and we respect them. We co꧟llaborate very well. What they do with Alfa Romeo is none of my business, and they knoꦦw that I respect that fully, I don’t interfere. 

“As long as we get what they promised and what they gave us - and they do - I’m happy. What they do otherwise, so it 🐽be. 

“I’m not c♎ritical or anything, an🌺d I don’t really care actually what they do with them, as long as we do what we always do, and we do. So I’m happy.”

Haas’ low cost business model approach and technical ties to Fer🧸rari helped the American squad secure fifth place in 🐈last season’s constructors’ championship, marking its best result since entering F1 in 2016.

“What we get from them we are very happy with - we didn’t have any negatives,” S💫teiner explaine🎀d. 

“As I said before, I have no influence on what they do and I don’t want to have because i൩t’s not my business with💖 what they do with their business. 

“I don’t fe♉el in a position to tell them what to do. As long as they always do what we do with them and they continue to do, and they actually do, then I’m happy. 

“What they do with Alfa, I have no influence and do not want to have any influence because we are happy with what we get from them.ꦬ It’s all good. I don’t even ask them questions about Alfa Romeo because it’s none of my business.” 

The re🧸vitalised Sauber squad finished eighth last year and will field a new line-up consisting of ex-Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen and Scuderia protege Antonio Giovinazzi.