Haas F1 team boss agrees with Red Bull men: "Is that really fair? No"

The intervention of the FIA to reduce porpoising has not been universally welcomed. On behalf of Red Bull Racing Max Verstappen and Helmut Marko said they thought it was "nonsense" and Guenther Steiner also said he did not really see the added value.

Steiner agrees with Verstappen and Marko

Team boss Steiner does not always agree with Red Bull, as became clear earlier this season. The two parties are diametrically opposed on the issue of whether or not to raise the budget ceiling, but they have found each other regarding the new 'technical directive'.

In conversation with RACER the Haas F1 chief maps out that changing the regulations in the interim is preferably something he wants to avoid. “You change something fundamentally, you could change the pecking order completely again. Is that really fair? No. The use of the safety factor… but that could be approached, too — if it is too dangerous, just raise your ride height."

Intervention of the FIA is, in Steiner's view, what had to be prevented. Mercedes, in particular, may well turn out to be the dog in the hole. The team of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell has the biggest porpoising problems with its W13 and so they may be the first to be asked by the international motorsport federation to raise the ride height.