Guenther Steiner: "We got pretty lost in 2019"

Haas team boss Guenther Steiner says that the coronavirus crisis might have helped the team. Because of the stop, he suggests they got to know their car better.

For many teams, the coronavirus crisis was a major financial collapse. McLaren needed a loan from its shareholders and Williams even sold the whole team. In an interview with Auto, Motor und Sport, Steiner says that an update to the aero package had to wait. "We needed a financial plan so we wouldn't have to close the tent."

Steiner does say that stopping the updates for the car hasn't just been bad. "It has also made us understand the car better. I see it as a learning phase, instead of trying something new every time. We lost a lot of ground in 2019, costing us millions. The only thing we learned last year was that we were wrong."