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Haas accuse stewards of bias towards big teams!

13:30, 02 Aug 2018

byAdam Newton

Haas boss Gunther Steiner believes that F1 race stewards are more lenient to bigger teams than they are to teams such as Haas. This comes after Max Verstappen avoiding a penalty for blocking Haas driver Romain Grosjean in Hungary qualifying last weekend and avoiding a penalty.

The stewards believed that Verstappen could not have avoided impeding the Frenchman, due to the wet conditions and the fact that there was another car slowing down just up the road.

However, this isn’t the only incident that Haas have suffered from in recent times. Lewis Hamilton avoided punishment for blocking Grosjean in qualifying for the 2017 British Grand Prix.

Additionally, Grosjean and Magnussen have been punished plenty of times for impeding and causing crashes this season, including in Spain and France, where Grosjean wiped out other cars on lap one.

Magnussen is known for blocking and has been punished previously, but Steiner believes the stewards punish on reputation rather than a level playing field.

"Sometimes we don't help ourselves to put ourselves in this position - if you didn't need to go there you wouldn't get the penalty.

"But if there is a decision to be taken, I still think that who you are counts for what the outcome is. It should all be without a name."