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Haas' F1 rivals ‘messed up' in 2024 – boss Komatsu

Aug.20 Underperforming rival teams have made Haas' 2024 car look better than it really is, new team boss Ayao Komatsu admits. The team's 2023 season was so poor that it cost long-time team principal Gunther Steiner his job – with Japanese engineer Komatsu promoted into the top job. One of Komatsu's first tasks was to warn the F1 world that Haas would almost certainly remain dead last this season. 'I would never lie,' he tells Auto Motor und Sport now. 'We had to stop work on the 2024 car for two months last year because of the Austin upgrade. I knew how far back that would set us. We are also by far the smallest team in the field,' Komatsu explained. 'If you think logically, the...
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