Haas boss Guenther Steiner has issued a response to claims his team have copied the Ferrari car. The American team have enjoyed a dream start to the 2022 campaign and have already amassed 12 points this season, a massive improvement after failing to score any points last year.
Now their rivals have appeared to throw a spanner in the works, as rivals have called on the F1 officials to investigate the legality of the Haas VF-22. Accusers claim that it shares too many similarities with Ferrari’s F1-75 car, but Steiner has leapt to his team’s defence.
“There are sometimes things in the rules that if they don’t work for you, you cannot go and change it,” he said. “Mercedes was winning the world championship eight years in a row, they had a very strong engine, and good for them, they did a good job.