Haas Formula One boss Gunther Steiner insists the squad has learned from its hectic 2019 season, but remains cautious about its prospects for this year.
Haas had a good start last year, but the team lost its way and was forced to return to Melbourne specifications.
Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean performed different specifications for most of the second half of the season, a situation that was not easy to manage.
Steiner is confident that the team has now taken a different approach.
“I am taking matters into my own hands,” he said.
“We are not going to make mistakes like last season. I definitely say yes. We understand that, we work a little differently.”
“There may still be mistakes. But I think if I said that we haven’t learned our lesson and that we’re stupid like last year, I mean, it wouldn’t make me feel good, especially saying, ‘No, I don’t know everything I learned last year, I keep going downhill like we did last year.
“No, we have learned our lesson. We are humble and we will try to become like two years ago. Let’s talk about two years ago.”
Steiner said the drivers’ comments on the 2020 car during testing last month were encouraging.
“They made the right noises,” he added.
“Obviously a driver is never happy, and especially if you think about what happened to us last year – I mean, we were very happy with it, so it ends up not being good.”
“So everyone is very careful.
“We are very careful in our predictions for this season, because we do not want to be:” Everything is fine, everything is fine “, then we fall hard.
“So we are doing diligent work and trying to do our best and see where it takes us.
“But it happens every year, last year, the developments didn’t work. So we ended up where we ended up.
“We are always very careful in what we do. We are a bit of a dark horse because we play it differently.
“We change a lot, normally here, there is a pattern, and we change the pattern a bit.
“No, we are always careful in what we do and we just want to make sure we can use it and come the best prepared in Australia.”
Haas Formula One boss Gunther Steiner insists the squad has learned from its hectic 2019 season, but remains cautious about its prospects for this year.
Haas had a good start last year, but the team lost its way and was forced to return to Melbourne specifications.
Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean performed different specifications for most of the second half of the season, a situation that was not easy to manage.
Steiner is confident that the team has now taken a different approach.
“I am taking matters into my own hands,” he said.
“We are not going to make mistakes like last season. I definitely say yes. We understand that, we work a little differently.”
“There may still be mistakes. But I think if I said that we haven’t learned our lesson and that we’re stupid like last year, I mean, it wouldn’t make me feel good, especially saying, ‘No, I don’t know everything I learned last year, I keep going downhill like we did last year.
“No, we have learned our lesson. We are humble and we will try to become like two years ago. Let’s talk about two years ago.”
Steiner said the drivers’ comments on the 2020 car during testing last month were encouraging.
“They made the right noises,” he added.
“Obviously a driver is never happy, and especially if you think about what happened to us last year – I mean, we were very happy with it, so it ends up not being good.”
“So everyone is very careful.
“We are very careful in our predictions for this season, because we do not want to be:” Everything is fine, everything is fine “, then we fall hard.
“So we are doing diligent work and trying to do our best and see where it takes us.
“But it happens every year, last year, the developments didn’t work. So we ended up where we ended up.
“We are always very careful in what we do. We are a bit of a dark horse because we play it differently.
“We change a lot, normally here, there is a pattern, and we change the pattern a bit.
“No, we are always careful in what we do and we just want to make sure we can use it and come the best prepared in Australia.”