Steiner: 'Hardline' driver approach might change for 2025

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Haas Team Principal Guenter Steiner believes the team's current "hardline" approach to having an experienced driver lineup over rookies might change for 2025.

 

According to racingnews365, the team elected to go with the experienced lineup of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg for 2023, after it was revealed that Mick Schumacher had cost the team millions of dollars in crash damage throughout the 2022 season.

 

Both Magnussen and Hulkenberg were retained on one-year deals for 2024, as the team wanted to have the experience to complement its ambitions to get further up the grid.

 

It ran an all-rookie lineup during the 2021 season with Nikita Mazepin and Schumacher, although Steiner has opened up the possibility of changing their current position for 2025 given the state of the current driver market.

 

"I think it was a hardline position at some stage," Steiner told media.

 

"In 2025 it opens up. At some stage we will have new drivers coming into F1 because some are getting on in their career.

 

"It's too early to make decisions, but I think next year a lot of people will start moving early in the season to make sure that in 2025 they are in a good place."

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