Haas not affected by court appeal

Gunther Steiner and Haas obviously still feel aggrieved about Romain Grosjean’s disqualification for the Italian Grand Prix and subsequent ongoing legal battle surrounding the decision.

The Frenchman finished in an impressive sixth position at Monza before being disqualified for the floor of the car being too wide.

Haas have appealed against the decision, hence the legal battle, and if they manage to get the decision overturned it would mean Grosjean’s eight points would be reinstated and rivals Renault would lose two points, which would bring the gap back down to just one point between the teams.

Renault and Haas remain the only two teams that have a realistic chance of finishing in fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship and the pride of being the best of the rest, after the top three teams of Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull, who are miles quicker than everyone else.

Steiner was asked by Crash.net whether the team was affected by the case and if it played on the minds of the team members.

He responded by saying: “No, on the team it doesn’t play… there is a team which got involved in it, which did the appeal, which had all of the correspondence before that we got this decision, that was the team.

“That was the four or five people focused on it. All the rest don’t have anything to do with it. Now we’ve done all our paper work, we get together again two days before.

“You go through everything, then we go again. This is not a thing that we keep on dragging on and thinking about. We’re very focused, let’s do this, this and this with the timescale, and they did a good job on that.”