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Haas admits early 2018 focus likely hurt results
Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its '18 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship's halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors' standings - four points behind Toro Rosso. By the end of the year, Renault had leapfrogged both and Haas ended up six points off Toro Rosso in the same eighth place it had achieved in its debut season in 2016. Haas made no secret of the fact it abandoned its 2016 car development very early to prioritise preparing for this year's major aerodynamic rules changes and working on its current car for longer in '17. But Steiner admitted the switch of focus this year may have still...
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