In the round-up: Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says their 2023 car “will be better” than last season as their technical team now have a season’s worth of experience working together.
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Steiner confident new Haas “will be better” than 2022
Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says their 2023 car “will be better” than last year’s car as their technical team now have a season’s worth of experience working together.
The team finished eighth in the constructors’ championship after forgoing any development of their 2021 car to prioritise the rules changes of 2022. Steiner told Speedcafe that the team’s new car will benefit from the factory team having gelled together over the last year.
“Our technical team, which is designing the car, when they started to design the ’22 car in ’21, it was a lot of good people, but they didn’t work as a team together before,” Steiner explained.
“Now they have done one car – and it wasn’t a bad car, I must say – but now they’ve worked a year together. They work as a team now, so I think the next car will be better. We achieved a lot. Obviously the result in the end – finishing eighth – am I completely happy? Not really. But in the end it’s a good starting point for going forward. Haas F1 is here to stay. We are solid and I think we just can get better from now on.”
Daytona 24 hours helps IndyCar drivers prepare for new season – Kirkwood
IndyCar driver who races in the Daytona 24 hours do so to help prepare themselves for the start of the IndyCar season, says Kyle Kirkwood.
Kirkwood, who will be racing a Lexus sportscar in the GTD class alongside Aaron Telitz, Frankie Montecalvo and Parker Thompson, will be enter into his second season of IndyCar in 2022 and will compete for Andretti. Asked if the Daytona endurance race will help to “knock off the rust” of the off-season, Kirkwood said “yeah, that’s exactly right – and that’s why we all do it.
“It’s a lot of fun to do that race too, he continued. “You’re racing against a bunch of drivers that you’re kind of cut-throat with when you come into the IndyCar Series and you could kind of relax a little bit and have fun with it. Sometimes you’re actually driving with one of your competitors in IndyCar. So it’s a cool thing to do, it’s a lot of fun. But it is definitely wearing on you as a person doing a 24 hour race because it’s hard to switch your mind out of a sprint race mentality and then go…
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