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# F1 podcast: Was Haas right to move on from Steiner?
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-podcast-dissecting-steiner-exit-haas-direction-and-komatsu-appointment/
- Published: 2024-01-10T18:38:05.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-11T10:36:40.000Z
- Description: The Race F1 Podcast dissects the news that Guenther Steiner has left the Haas F1 team, the ramifications of that change and how his replacement Ayao Komatsu may fare
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: Formula 1, #haas

Now the news is out, The Race F1 Podcast convenes to dissect the shock announcement that Guenther Steiner has left the Haas Formula 1 team.

Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw are all on hand to weigh in, looking at the disagreement which triggered the change and forced Steiner’s exit, how it will impact the 2024 season, and what it says about Gene Haas’s longer-term plans for the team.

Steiner’s replacement Ayao Komatsu is also discussed as the successor - with it debated whether he can replicate some of the magic of a similar appointment McLaren made in promoting Andrea Stella from an engineering role to team principal for 2023.

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