Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu has challenged the suggestion of his predecessor Guenther Steiner that the team downplayed pre-season expectations when it knew it had a good car.
In a media call last week, Steiner suggested that prior to his departure, the wind tunnel numbers already suggested that the VF-24 would be competitive and that the team was 'wrong' to take a low-key approach when predicting its potential form. The car has already proved capable of making Q3 and Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen have made the points three times between them, putting the team in seventh place in the constructors’ table.
“Then they’ve got the grounds to say, 'Okay, this is where we're going to start, this is where we're going to improve.’ “So that's more internal message if you like, but it's not a bullshit smokescreen. Seriously, that was my expectation.” Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images Komatsu conceded that the Bahrain test indicated that the VF-24 had potential, despite the focus on tyre management rather than outright performance.
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