Haas and Dallara work together to cure front wing failures

The Haas F1 Team is working with chassis manufacturer Dallara to address the problems which have led to multiple front wing failures this season on the team's VF-16 chassis.

Following several failures sustained in pre-season testing, in Bahrain and in Barcelona, Haas suffered a fourth front wing collapse in Canada recently.

The cause has apparently been linked to a production problem rather than to a design issue, and the US outfit has initiated a thorough analysis along with partner Dallara to solve the problematic weakness, according to team principal Guenther Steiner.

"Dallara doesn't take the decision on how and who is making it, that is still Haas F1," he said.

"What is difficult to understand is how high the standard of F1 is with all the parts, compared to in GP2 and IndyCar. It's a big gap in between. There are only 10 companies that know how to do it and they are the 10 Formula 1 teams.

"What we will bring to Dallara is to get to that standard and it is our responsibility to take them there. I would not see this as a negative to Dallara, you cannot know what you don't know, so we have to bring it to them with our own people.

"Even this year we made already big steps, both in terms of weight and quality of parts. But next year we need to be where the other teams are and we will be."

Asked whether Haas had any regrets about outsourcing the manufacturing of its chassis, Steiner said they did not.

"You learn a lot as well on how to make parts more cost efficiently because they [Dallara] do it for production cars. So you need to find the balance, and some you lose and some you win, but at the end I think it is a gain for both companies.

"If we had done it all ourselves, on our own with our own composite factory, it wouldn't have been any better."

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