Guenther Steiner says Haas’ US GP review outcome highlighted the ‘bad job’ FIA is doing on policing track limit violations

The 'right to review' appeal for Haas was rejected by FIA on the account of failing to provide enough evidence for the case.

Guenther Steiner says Haas’ US GP review outcome highlighted the ‘bad job’ FIA is doing on policing track limit violations

Guenther Steiner (via IMAGO)

Haas racing team, along with its boss Guenther Steiner, had submitted a ‘right to review’ appeal to FIA over track limit violations at the US GP. A successful appeal could have changed the entire classification of the race. However, FIA rejected the appeal due to a lack of evidence from Haas.

After failing to make a successful appeal, Guenther Steiner was quizzed about his opinions on this. The boss showed no signs of regret and claimed that they were conscious that it was a difficult appeal to turn out successful. Additionally, Steiner claimed that they did get something out of it as the US GP stewards talked about the ‘bad job’ from FIA.

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I don’t regret it, Obviously we were conscious that it will be difficult to make it stick, but at least we tried. And what came out is that the stewards actually said the FIA is doing a bad job. And I think that’s what was done.

Steiner said, as reported by autosport.com.

The Italian-American boss insisted that FIA needed to place a camera at Turn 6 and recheck the violations properly, and also added that you have to try to fight for something in life. Additionally, Stewards had pleaded with Steiner to appeal immediately after the race and not wait so long before appealing to FIA.

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We didn't get anything out of it, but you have to try, in life you have to fight. You just can't say, 'Oh I do nothing.' They [the FIA] should have done is made sure that they had a CCTV camera on Turn 6, so I don't have to protest,

Guenther Steiner exclaimed that checking violations is the FIA’s job and not the team’s

The 58-year-old explained that the FIA is the governing body of track limit violations. Subsequently, he added that the FIA needed to place more measures to check the violations clearly and give out fair results and warnings for violations. Steiner also called it their [FIA’s] job and the team’s job to check their violations on the track.

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When stewards asked Steiner to submit the appeal immediately after the race, he responded to this and commented that they didn’t have the time and evidence immediately as it was not their job. Finally, Guenther Steiner renounced that they were just a racing team and all this was not their job, and they paid FIA as a governing body to recheck all these violations on the track.

The boss also felt that an appeal was more useful and necessary as a protest would have taken more time and cost more money to the team. Since the appeal also incurred very little cost, it didn’t heavily damage the team despite the failed appeal.

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