Haas Team Principal Guenther Steiner Leaves Role, Ayao Komatsu Takes Over

The Haas System One workforce can have a brand new chief in cost in 2024 — longtime workforce principal Guenther Steiner has shockingly left his place after 10 years, the group introduced Wednesday.

Steiner — a star on Netflix’s ‘Drive To Survive’ — held the function since Haas joined the grid in 2016, reaching as excessive as fifth within the Constuctor Standings in 2018.

It was a tough 2023 marketing campaign, although … as Haas completed final with simply 12 factors.

In keeping with F1, Steiner met with workforce proprietor Gene Haas following the 2023 season … and it was determined they might go their separate methods.

Haas’ director of engineering, Ayao Komatsu, will take over as workforce principal.

“I’d like to start by extending my thanks to Guenther Steiner for all his hard work over the past decade and I wish him well for the future,” Haas mentioned in a press release.

“Moving forward as an organization, it was clear we need to improve our on-track performances. In appointing Ayao Komatsu as Team Principal we fundamentally have engineering at the heart of our management.”

“We have had some successes, but we need to be consistent in delivering results that help us reach our wider goals as an organization,” he added. “We need to be efficient with the resources we have but improving our design and engineering capability is key to our success as a team.”