Haas F1 team chief Guenther Steiner is adamant that his team will confirm their driver line-up shortly after the summer break, after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
With a number of big teams yet to finalise their 2017 drivers, Steiner is keen to avoid waiting too long on the matter
Steiner told ESPN, “I don’t think you want to waste this long. If you know where you are it’s better than this uncertainty. We are very confident we can say after Monza.
“Last year we said the same that we would tell the drivers and we did it – maybe a few weeks late but we didn’t wait until [the winter]. Normally we do what we say, or we try to. It gives the whole team certainty and you can focus on the car and performance.”
Haas are still focusing on their 2016 car and an array of updates will be bolted on for the Singapore Grand Prix weekend.
With several teams already firmly concentrating on next season’s design and development, Steiner explained the stance the Haas team are taking.
“We just want to get better at manufacturing. We just changed our internal organisation, so these parts were developed sometime in March, April, and just went into production a little bit later, and therefore they come later.”
“We didn’t want to rush them because there’s no point. We want to get better at our game as well for next year because the second year is the most difficult one for everybody.”
“We are doing as much as possible not to make mistakes in the second year because everybody’s out waiting for us to say ‘we told you so’ – you guys basically! It’s you people,” added Steiner.
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