Günther Steiner is hopeful that the Ferrari powerplants used by Haas F1 will become more reliable in 2023. Like the Scuderia, the US team has suffered technical problems with the engines on more than one occasion this season.
“I don’t think the issues are fully resolved, Maranello will continue to work on them,” the Haas F1 boss told the British tabloid Daily Mirror. “It’s all sad, I’m very shocked. This is not to say that we cannot influence the situation in any way because we could turn to another engine supplier, but probably this would be the worst decision for us. Each scenario has its pros and cons.
If we get new power plants, everything should be fine with them, and I hope that a solution will be found next year, because this season we had a lot of problems. There were accidents, but also the power plants failed – all this bothered us.
I can’t say we’re lucky! The engine is powerful and there were no problems in this regard, unlike last season when we had no power. Now this is OK, but the reliability is letting us down and I’m sure the problem could be solved next year.
It’s frustrating when things like this happen, but if you think about it, I’d rather have a powerful power plant that doesn’t do well in terms of reliability than start the weekend knowing we’re out of power and there’s nothing we can do the. . If the engine is very efficient despite technical problems, it is still better.
The only thing we can do is change the supplier of the power plants, which isn’t easy either, because the grass in the neighbor’s yard doesn’t look greener until you’re there. But so far we are not considering such scenarios and the collaboration with Ferrari has always been good. We normally work together, so we don’t want to change anything yet.”
During Friday’s first practice session in Mexico City, when Pietro Fittipaldi drove Kevin Magnussen’s car, there were again problems with the power plant, after which the team confirmed that the engine would need to be replaced. Since the Dane already got the sixth engine this season, a penalty followed in the form of the loss of five starting positions. Kevin set a 15th fastest time in qualifying, but will eventually start the race from 19th position.
Source: F1 News
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