Guenther Steiner demands new F1 rule: “No owner should have two teams”
“You never get away from th🦋e suspicion t✅hat there are team orders between teams"

Guenther Steiner thinks Formula 1 must intro🍸duce a new rule prevent🀅ing two teams with the same owner.
However, he accepts a r🃏ꦬule must be phased in slowly.
Red 🌺Bull - who Steiner worked for before becoming Haas team 🐻principal - would be most affected by his proposed new regulation.
Red Bull have sister✨ team RB who are also on the F1 grid, a si🥀tuation which has riled some of their rivals.
ꦓ“In a sport like Formula 1, no owner shoul🧸d have two teams,” Steiner told the Red Flags podcast.
“You neve🏅r get away from the suspicion that there are team orders between teams.
“I guess we have to respect what Red Bull did at the time. I was🎶 i💎nvolved in it, when they bought Minardi.
“F1 was struggling. Minardi was stru♔ggling, they would have gone away without a 🐓saviour.
“F1 has developed a lot since those days.
“In the future, maybe there can be a fix that you’re not allowed to own two team꧙s.
“You are not allowed to do it in football, nowh൲ere.”
But Steiner 🤪warns that the situation cannot be changed overnight.
“It shouldn’t be as radical as in the Concorde Agreement. No,” he sa🐼id𒁏.
“What Red Bull put into F1 to make it what it is now, i🎃t’s quite amazing.
“So, in the end, you cannot tell them what to d🅠o with their teams.
“But in the future there ne🌠eds to be thought a𝔉bout it. How can we avoid it?”
𒊎Controversy arose in Singapore when RB’s Daniel Ricciar🌞do claimed the fastest lap bonus point in the closing stages.
He robbed McLaren’s Lando Norris of the bonus point which might later b💜ecome cr𝓰ucial in the drivers’ championship battle.
RB essentiall🤪y aided their sister team Red Bull’s star man Max Verstappen in his quest for the F1 title by depriving Norris of points.
“If Visa Cash Ap✨p wasn’t owned by the same owner, nobody would have had this suspicion,” Steiner said.
“Everyone would havꦬe said it’s the last🍌 hurrah for Daniel Ricciardo.
“I✃f, for example, Sauber made the last lap. Would anybody have been worri♐ed? No.
“The problem isꦅ because they are owned by the s🍷ame owners.”
Haas, under Steiner’s leadership,🌟 were a customer team of Ferrari.
But they 🐼had different owners, which Steiner insists is a crucial detail.
“Times have changed. In the past if you were a customer team, you ha🌊d to do what your supplier wanted,” he said.
“Nobody could tell contractually because all the contracts are with the FIA. N🌠obody could say ‘you n𒉰eed to hold up this car’.
“But if you’re owned by th🌳e same company it’s a different story. It’s a different level of collaboration.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for🌞 a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.