The Haas F1 team starts the season with a fully updated composition, in 2021, two newcomers will be played for it - Mick Schumacher, last year the title in Formula 2, and the Russian Racer Nikita Mazepine, who took 5th place in the Personal Host of the Youth Championship.
Before the beginning of the Bahrain Racing Weekend, the head of the American team of Güntter Steiner, was asked if there was a need for this year to make changes to the usual approaches to the preparation for the season.
"Of course, this year the training passed differently," he replied. - When Roman Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen appeared for our team, we knew each other perfectly, and everything happened more or less automatically. But now everything is in a new way, our riders spend a lot of time working with engineers, trying to prepare as much as possible.
Of course, there are a lot of excitements, you just think: Mick and Nikita are engaged in races, maybe from 10 years old, maybe with 8, I don't know exactly, all these years they worked hard to get into Formula 1, and This moment is coming. On Sunday, they will have to go to the start of their first Grand Prix, and, on the one hand, they are in anticipation of this, on the other, are nervous, but it is even good. They still learn everything, and now the whole team has a raised mood. "
Sheer also stressed that the team plans only a minor modernization of the car in the course of the season, since all the forces and resources will be aimed at preparing for 2022: "Something we brought to Bahrain, and the latest updates will be submitted in the imol, and on this issue of VF -21 will be completed.
To be honest, we are preparing to the immol. We are preparing only a few small novelties, but this is what we did not have time to compell in time, so there will be no special changes. All the same, the car has changed significantly compared to last year, this is due to the new arrangement regulations. She has a new bottom, another front wing, a number of cabinet parts have changed, brake ducts, etc.
Will we faster Williams? I would know the answers to such questions, I would have another job! After tests it is difficult to judge the alignment of forces, especially this year, when they lasted only three days. All worked according to their programs, the state of the route and weather conditions changed all the time, so I have no idea who is faster. But all this we will find out in a couple of days.
Considering, at what positions, we found themselves in the 2020th, this year there was no particular sense to engage in the modernization of the car, knowing that this is the last year when the old technical regulation works. By 2022, we have to develop a completely new chassis, so we consider the upcoming season as a transitional season. At the same time, we work very intensively over the machine for the next championship. "
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