The tꦅeam chose not to extend it, BBC and Sky report, meaning he was not technicall🅺y fired.

But the split was due to underlying disputes.

“The Italian and the team had diffe🃏rent visionsꦿ on the future,” Sky reported.

Those differences were reported elsewhere too.

“I understand Steiner and owner Gene Haas had dif👍fering views on the team’s path forward and thus it was decided to go their separate ways,𓃲” F1.com’s Lawrence Barretto wrote.

“I believe Steiner’s contract ༒expired at 💧the end of last year. Following the disagreement on the future strategy, that contract wasn’t renewed.”

Ay꧒ao Komatsu will replace the popular Steiner, wไho grew in fame due to Netflix series Drive To Survive, as Haas team principal for the 2024 F1 season.

Gene Haas hinted at the reasons for t🌄his split in his official statement: "Moving f🌄orward, it was clear we needed to improve our on-track performances.”

Tellingly, the Haas statement announcing Steiner’s exit did 👍not include a comment from the man himself.

Haas finished bottom of the F1 constructors’ championship last season, the eighth ✃of Steiner’s leadership.

They have often been dogged🍒 by their race pace after respectable qualify𝓡ing stints.

Their cost-effective approach has been to only build their own ch🎐assis and aerodynami෴cs surfaces, and import the rest of their parts from Ferrari.

A year ago, Steiner mജade the high-profile call to axe driver Mick Schumacher after what he deemed to be too many crashes.

But even with꧑ the experienced duo of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg this year, Haas failed to move up the grid.

Ultimately, Steiner has paid the price.