Haas unhappy with repeat failures

Guenther Steiner wants Haas to review its processes after another front wing problem struck the team in Barcelona.

Haas uses Italian manufacturer Dallara to produce its chassis, but suffered a front wing failure during pre-season testing which required modifications. A further failure occurred in Bahrain, which Haas found not to be a recurrence of the pre-season issue.

Romain Grosjean had been running inside the top ten during the first part of the Spanish Grand Prix but had to pit shortly after the halfway mark with a broken front wing. With the failure occurring without contact the Frenchman was unhappy about the quality of the component following the race and Steiner says it is part of the learning process for Haas to analyse why it is having such problems.

"This is a very simple but costly mistake, not costly money-wise but costly weekend-wise," Steiner told F1i. "We need to be better than that, or we need to get better at that stuff.

"We could have been there in 10th, it wasn’t up to our expectations so we need to get better at that. There’s a lot of room for improvement on a lot of things, but as a new team this is the time where all of a sudden everything needs to shake out.

"You need now to reset and say ‘we need to address this, this and this’. As I’ve said we don’t want to throw updates on every weekend, there’s a lot gained in this because I did start-up race teams before and you learn out of experience.

"In the beginning everything is fine because everyone works on adrenaline but then you need to get it stable because you cannot run an F1 team on adrenaline. You need to be stable, have your processes and procedures in place, and that is what we are doing now. It’s part of building a team.”

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