Haas Formula 1 chief Günther Sܫteiner has revealed the team turned down a request from🥂 technical partner Ferrari to field one of its young drivers in a race seat for the 2018 season.

Haas became F1's newest team when it joined the grid in 2016, enjoying heavy technical support from Ferrಞari that played a part in running the Italian marque's reserve driver Esteban Gutierrez as one of its full-tಞime drivers.

Gutierrez was dropped after one year to make way for Kevin Magnussen, who alongside Ro🔥main Grosjean was confirmed to be staying on for 2018 earlier this summer after signing a multi-year contract.

Ferrari is currently working to get junior driver♌s Charles Leclerc and Antonio Giovinazzi into race seats for 2018, with Steineཧr confirming Haas had received a request to field one of them, only to turn it down.

"We work very closely with Ferrari together on things but they respect our decisions. We are very open with them about what we are doing because that's the only way the partnership𓆉 works, there is no playing games," .

"We k🧜now we hav𒆙e got these two drivers and sometimes you need to look after the long term, because next year is short term.

"They asked uꦜs if we can do something, and we said no. It's fine. We make our plans and try to plan as well as possible. When we signed these drivers we had to make the plans together. We need to be consistent."

Steiner went on to hail the consistency offered by Magnussen and Grosjean at Haas, with the pair ta𝓰king the team well beyond its constructors' championship points haul from its debut season.

"I wouldn't say we would confuse ourselves without help from outside, but everything is new for us and while consistency sometimes goes against you, so𓃲metimes fresh blood helps you do better.

"We need to build a base. For that, consistency is important. ไI think we work with both of our drivers very well so at the moment for us th🌜ere is nothing to be changed."