Haas Team Principal Guenther Steiner says histeam will win races in Formula 1. F1's youngest team are celebrating their 150thGrand Prix at Monaco this weekend, and Steiner – who has been in charge at Haassince the team's inception – said he was struggling to process the milestone. "I cannot get my head around it," Steinertold the F1 Nation podcast. "I'm not a statistics guy. I live fromday to day, from race to race. "There are people out there who havedone a lot more than we have done, but 150 Grands Prix is not a little. "And if you think that it's the youngestteam, I think that says something. There were highs, also some lows, but that is life. "At the end, it’s been a good ride, or adecent ride, and it isn't over yet, we keep on going."
Steiner: 'I didn't see this coming!'
Since joining the grid in 2016, Haas have hadmixed fortunes, with a fifth-place finish in the 2018 Constructors' Championshipcontrasting sharply with 2021, in which the team failed to score a single pointin a car that had little development work over the course of the year. A lack of success prompted rumours that ownerGene Haas might pull out of F1, but with increased interest in the sport helpingthe team sign some lucrative new sponsorship deals, Haas are now on surerfinancial footing and appear set to remain in the sport for the foreseeablefuture. For his part, Steiner noted that the unpredictablenature of F1 made it impossible to have a plan and stick to it. "If you start a business, you have afive-year plan. If you start anything in motorsport, you have to have afive-year plan, but how realistic is it?" said Steiner. "Look at Formula 1 now. Would you havethought five years ago that Formula 1 would have been on a hype like it is atthe moment? I honestly say no. "I could say I saw this coming, but Ididn't see this coming when we started this when we were like, 'Ok let's try todo something.' I'm not one to talk for Gene, but I think he was the same. "I don't think anybody could have predictedwhat happened to Formula 1 in the last three to five years."
"It's been a good ride, and it isn't over yet."
Guenther Steiner
Steiner: Haas will win races!
One of the smaller teams on the F1 grid, Haasare yet to finish on the podium, with Kevin Magnussen's fourth place at the2018 Austrian Grand Prix representing the team's highest finish across seven seasons in F1. The team finished eighth in the Constructors' Championship last year, and currently sit seventh after five races of 2023. Nonetheless, Steiner expressed confidencethat his team would eventually win a Grand Prix. "The present objective this year is to moveup in the Constructors' Championship from last year, getting better every year,it's as simple as this," said Steiner. "And at some stage, we want to be winningraces. I don't know how far away it is and I'm not going to say it's thisseason or next season, but at some stage, it will happen with Haas."
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