Despite the fact that the goodness between the teams usually comes out in this type of event, Haas has seen how up to three teams have refused to allow Guenther Steiner’s team to enjoy some extra tests on Sunday.
As happened to Williams in 2019, when he missed the first two days of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Haas has seen how he fared impossible to go out to roll from the first moment on the opening day of the official pre-season in Bahrain in 2022.
It is true that in the case of the formation of Grove this was due to a significant delay in its own development, without external causes, while those commanded by Guenther Steiner it seems that a one-eyed man has looked at them: After having to get rid of Nikita Mazepin and Uralkali by forced marches due to the situation in Russia, resorting to Kevin Magnussen, their material was left thousands of kilometers from Sakhir.
“Simply we got on the wrong plane at the wrong time. It had some technical problems and got stuck in Turkey, never made it to the UK and that was it,” Steiner confessed after it was made public that a plane from Formula 1 Management was affected by mechanical mishaps.
Disputes between teams
Given that the event was out of Haas’s hands, the Americans asked the FIA and the rest of the teams to have an extraordinary session on Sundayimmediately after the tests, a session that was initially going to be granted without major problems.
However, Steiner himself revealed that “we were denied the test on Sunday”, adding that McLaren was opposed to it, literally, “9 minutes before we left”. Two other teams were against Haas in this regard, and although the definitive ‘yes’ from Mercedes is still in doubt, Alpine was the third in contention that refused to let Haas ride on Sunday.
“Now we have to recover every day, we can recover 4 hours of testing, but we have to do it at the end of the day”
“Now we have to recover every day, we can recover 4 hours of testing, but we have to do it at the end of the day,” Steiner said, so in the days of Friday and Saturday Both Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher will have two more hours of filming respectively, as a change in the sporting regulations of this draft will not be allowed without unanimity.
“We have been unlucky. Look at our last two years, in neither of them have we had much luck», concluded Steiner, as pessimistic as possible, aware that his 2021 consisted largely of preparing a more or less competitive single-seater for 2022 with the new regulations, precisely after leaving the season since the beginning of the year and refusing to work on updates to a project that was getting them nowhere.