The American-owned outfit has been chasing a treatment for the excessive tyre degradation woes which have derailed its prospects at a number of races this yr.
Its VF-23 automotive seems to be fairly aggressive on its rubber, which is nice for switching tyres on for single qualifying laps however is an enormous handicap to its drivers in the case of administration within the races.
Work is ongoing at its Banbury manufacturing facility to attempt to unravel what’s triggering its issues, however Steiner is uncertain that there can be a single magic bullet that may rework its potential.
Requested how a lot of the issues the workforce understood, Steiner mentioned: “I believe a few of it we perceive utterly. However actually, we solely perceive a few of it. We’re working too excessive temperature, however there could possibly be one thing else.”
Steiner mentioned that fixing issues in F1 was at all times an extended course of, and there was hardly even an event the place a workforce made one easy change and its state of affairs improved dramatically.
“You could at all times make things better, however then you definitely discover the subsequent downside. You by no means can wait till you might have the Holy Grail.
“If I might know why the Purple Bull is so quick, then why we do not do the identical? So, it’s worthwhile to get slowly there, and all people will get slowly there.
Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-23, Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-23
Picture by: Erik Junius
“You repair it little by little, hoping that the opposite ones do not make one other leap so that you catch up. We all know our tyres run too scorching, however is there one thing else as to why we’ve got obtained such an enormous degradation of tyres?”
Steiner mentioned one of many key hurdles that the workforce needed to overcome was accepting that there was one thing awry with its automotive design that was triggering the tyre issues.
“In case you see that, clearly, different individuals can handle the tyres in a different way, at some stage it’s worthwhile to admit it [the car] is incorrect, as a result of we get the identical tyres and we have the identical wheels now as effectively,” he mentioned.
“Within the {old} days, you had completely different rims as effectively. However now all people’s obtained the identical wheels and the identical tyres, so it should be one thing incorrect with the automotive. And clearly, admission is step one to getting higher.”
Extra reporting by Filip Cleeren