Haas team principal Gunther Steiner says the American team will not be considering a rookie driver for their second year in Formula 1, thus ruling out Ferrari protégé Charles Leclerc who has tyested for the team this year.
Steiner told ESPN, “A rookie is not an option at the moment, it’s not the thing we want to do. I think in the position we are in, he [Leclerc] is too inexperienced.
“I wouldn’t say too young, I mean Max Verstappen does a good job, but it’s difficult that you get in two years two 18-year-olds that are rockets.”
“But the main reason; we highly respect what Leclerc is doing in FP1, he was on the game immediately, but what we need is more somebody who can score points.”
Lack of experience cost Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi a drive with the USA based outfit.
Steiner explained, “We need to train the team basically, we cannot train a driver. As I always said when I was asked last year about Alexander Rossi – that could break somebodies career.”
“We are still relatively new next year, we are the second year, if we take a new driver and he doesn’t perform it could be us as well that don’t perform. Why would you take a risk?”
“For sure take a risk if there is no other opportunity, so they take the risk, they would take it but then if it doesn’t work out for sure we would be blamed and that I think is not right.
“We need to look after ourselves and make the team bigger so we are ready for young talent. We are in a good position to wait, therefore we are waiting because there is nothing moving a lot up that end,” added Steiner.
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