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Why Haas will already start F1 2024 on back foot
The 2024 Formula 1 season brings changes for Haas, as team boss Guenther Steiner and technical director Simone Resta leave. Owner Gene Haas is dissatisfied with the lack of progress and has appointed new principal Komatsu to overhaul the technical program and adopt a more engineering-led approach. Haas has struggled to convert one-lap pace into sustained race performance, mainly due to tire overheating issues. To address this, Haas changed the car concept for the 2023 US Grand Prix, but it didn’t yield significant results and forced a halt in the 2024 car program. Komatsu expects Haas to be towards the back of the grid, if not last, in Bahrain but believes the changes were necessary to avoid bigger problems. Haas aims to reverse its tendency to fall behind in F1’s development war with streamlined technical processes, personnel reshuffling, and improved communication.
