Guenther Steiner Foresees Haas Maintaining Its ‘Underdog’ Status in 2022 F1 Season

The past season for Haas was one they won’t forget in a hurry. It was a disaster but a disaster of the worst degree, with every race weekend bringing the two spots on the back of the grid on Saturdays and ending where they began, or a DNF on a Sunday. Now we know the kind of person team principal Guenther Steiner is thanks to D2S, so his reactions to his team’s results in 2021 can be accurately assumed.

But for 2022, most of the teams in the bottom half of the table are remaining optimistic with the incoming new car. It is largely predicted that the playing field could get considerably ‘level.’

Yet despite that, Guenther Steiner has described his team keeping a title that was theirs many years ago, that of an underdog.

“I think we will still be the underdog which is trying to punch above its weight because our structure is roughly the same as it was in ’18 and ’19,” he said.

He added, “We are still the smallest team, people-wise. Production-wise, obviously we are by far the smallest. I think we are still the team we were in ’16, ’17, and ’18 and we want to get back to where we were in ’18 and ’19. We still want to be known to be that.”

Guenther Steiner and Haas betting big on Ferrari’s 2022 promise

For a while now, Ferrari’s name is being heard as the team that will take the F1 season by storm this year. It has been reported several times, the superiority of their new car.

This is something the Haas boss also finds “very encouraging.”

“I think Ferrari makes good progress also with the combustion engine, not only with the hybrid system for next year,” he said.

But Steiner also hopes the other teams haven’t done as good a job as Ferrari – “I hope that works and I hope the other ones have not done a mega job.”

We’ll let you wonder why he said that.

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