Mar.11 Gunther Steiner has confirmed that he left Haas over a disagreement with the team owner about whether the small American team needed to change direction in Formula 1. The team's long-time and now former boss, Steiner, admits Gene Haas' phone call around the Christmas break 'came out of nowhere' – and resulted in the owner telling him his contract would not be renewed for 2024. 'You work with someone for ten years and then you get a call like that – that's strange,' Steiner told the Dutch magazine Formule 1. 'But otherwise I was ok. 'I just move on, it's fine.' Haas slumped to dead last in the constructors' championship last year, mainly because the 2023 car burned...
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