Haas has changed its organization for pit stops

After the cruel disappointment of Melbourne where the two Haas VF-18 had been released from its pit location with a loose wheel, the American team has revised its battle plan for the Bahrain event this weekend.

Günther Steiner, Team Principal of the Kannapolis (North Carolina) structure, clarified in the paddock that it is the whole team that must improve, and not just the elements responsible for tire changes.

“You can't fix the past, but you have to look forward and say, 'guys, it happened, it shouldn't have happened.' »I'm not proud of that, as a team I'm not proud of it.

I don't want to point the finger at one guy, just explain to them: "Guys, this needs to be better, but as a team" and everyone will go straight to looking for ideas to avoid situations like this. »

The head of Haas details the changes thus applied from this weekend, with safeguards to prevent any recurrence and regain a certain performance in the exercise.

« We swapped a few positions and the main reason is not because they made a mistake, but to get their confidence back... LThe risk of error is high: you swap positions, you give them different functions because you need a lot of people, that's what we did for this race and what we've been doing since yesterday.

One gun attendant stayed and we put another one on. But it’s a combination of those three people as a team. It's just an exchange of places. ForThe guys who feel the most pressure, you tell them to be in another position for a few races to get their confidence back. »

Haas F1 Team has also added a person during stops who can decide to stop restarting the car if a problem is detected. On the other hand, Günther Steiner admits that the team did not carry out too many training sessions, for several reasons.

“We didn’t have a car. Mechanics travel a lot. With on-stop training, you need the entire staff. Some of them were already there on Saturday.

We started yesterday, we tried to do as much as possible until the race, there is a good balance between doing too much, because it's also physical, if people are tired it's no use to do it because they're not focused and they just lose their confidence again. »