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
Guenther Steiner

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.”

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