Haas F1 team boss Guenther Steiner is confident the American team can return to the good form of a few years ago. Haas is in its worst Formula One season in the team's short existence in 2021.
Haas came onto the grid in 2016 as a new Formula One team. It attracted an experienced driver with Romain Grosjean and in 2017 Kevin Magnussen joined the team as the Frenchman's teammate. From 2016 to 2018, there was a strong upward trend at the team, but since 2019, things have been getting worse.
Haas has taken a big gamble in 2021, first of all with the line-up: Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin both coame over from Formula 2 and had very little experience with the modern Formula 1 car. In addition, the team would not bring upgrades to the weakly performing VF-21 the team is driving this year, in order to put the full focus on 2022.
Despite all this, Steiner is at MotorsportWeek.com is optimistic about the future: "You are never in a comfortable position, you always want more as the day you don’t want more you should change job – especially in F1."
Steiner sees a lot of improvements in the team. "Technical wise, with Simone Resta leading the technical group, we have a leader now again, and I see good progress there. I’m pretty hopeful and confident that we will get back to our old form."