{"id":17307,"date":"2023-11-13T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=17307"},"modified":"2023-11-13T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:42:44","slug":"f1-news-haas-face-inevitable-decline-ahead-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2023\/11\/13\/f1-news-haas-face-inevitable-decline-ahead-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 News: Haas face inevitable decline ahead of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

F1 news headlines are rarely far from the topic of Haas and their worryingly predictable mid-season decline.<\/h3>\n

Haas began the season with a new sense of optimism and promise. After several years in apparent financial difficulty, a new title partnership with MoneyGram promised to stabilise the team’s position. In theory, this would take away one of their main limitations.<\/p>\n

After all, Guenther Steiner’s team<\/a> has always been limited by its resources in Formula 1. For many observers, this season represented a chance to push forward and unlock new levels of development and investment.<\/p>\n

Reality, however, became far less appealing for the American team. If anything, the last twelve months have demonstrated how deep-rooted their limitations are. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly clear that Haas lacks the firepower to match its rivals.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen are a return to the team’s more traditional driver model – experience and speed. Arguably, this is the strongest pairing to drive for the US outfit.<\/p>\n

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Although the standings don’t show it, Magnussen can claim a series of impressive performances in 2023. Even in the very limited VF-23, the Dane has scored points on three separate occasions – in arguably the worst car in F1.<\/p>\n

Hulkenberg, meanwhile, is performing at a very high level. Three years away from a full-time drive hasn’t slowed him down, with the 38-year-old widely regarded as the top performer for Haas this season.<\/p>\n

This is a positive development for the team from a competitive perspective – but there are other impacts. Most notably, the solidity of their driver combination means that the usual distraction isn’t there anymore. Full focus is diverted to how the team operates.<\/p>\n

Simply put, the virtually non-existent development at Haas is impossible to ignore. Even their own drivers have spoken about this issue,<\/a> a role reversal from the usual dynamic at Haas.\u00a0 Now sitting last in the standings, this position reflects their investment relative to other F1 teams.<\/p>\n

If the American team is to compete with the likes of AlphaTauri and Williams – who are becoming increasingly competitive – they cannot continue operating in the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F1 news headlines are rarely far from the topic of Haas and their worryingly predictable mid-season decline. Haas began the season with a new sense of optimism and promise. After several years in apparent financial difficulty, a new title partnership with MoneyGram promised to stabilise the team’s position. In theory, this would take away one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":16782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2186,68,23,301],"class_list":["post-17307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2023-formula-1-season","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-haas-f1-team"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}