Guenther Steiner insists he shouldཧ have left Haas much earlier than he eventually did.

The former team principal left his job at 🔴the end of last year, but believes𒁃 the writing was on the wall 18 months earlier.

Steiner was ☂instrumental in setting up the Haas F1 team from the grou♏nd up.

“I have no b🎉ad feelings against the team,” he told the Skyꦦ F1 podcast.

“You understand, when you are gone. When you are in it, you have tunn𝓡el vision - ‘I need to do this’.

“You neverꦜ think about why the hell am I doing this, it doesn’🙈t make sense.

“When you look back…

“I should have left in the middle of 2022.🌠 It started afterwards t𒁃o get difficult.

“I couldn’t see how we could make progress.

“We were going to ra💦ces and were so happy to [score] one poin𒊎t. But how long can you do that? You can do it a long time, but not me.

“I need to have something bigger to aimꦕ at than getting one 🌸point. Because I’ve done that, I’ve got the t-shirt.

“When yo💦u set up an F1 team you want to establish it, then get points, then go the podium. You need a goal.

“When Covid hit, everything stalled. Every day⭕ was the same, we were just doing a job.”

Haas started 2022 with the inexperienced driver duo of Mic🧔k Schumacher and Nඣikita Mazepin.

Mazepin was 🌊swiftly sacked, opening the door to Kevin Magnussen.

Magnussen finished 1﷽3th in the drivers’ championship, Schumacher 16th. Haas were seventh in the constructors’.

But the team went backwards in 2023, which would eventually be Steiner♔’s final season as the team boss.

Haas finished bottom of the constructors’ champio❀nship despite Steiner’s decision to get rid of inexperienced drivers and count on Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg.

Under Ayao Komatsu’ꩵs leadership this season, there appears to be brighter days ahead for Haas.