Guenther Steiner bel♒ieves that he stayed at Haas for too long.

The popular team principal surprisingly lꩲeft his job before the start of the F1 2024 seas💟on.

He cited disagreements over money and investment with team own💖er Gene Haas for the reason that his expiring contract was not renewed.

Steiner has now made an admission about his near-decade with the US-owned F1 tꦅeam.

“Liౠfe has been good since I left Haas ahead of this season,” he wrote for.

“These last few weeks are the first time I’ve switched off from F1 for around a ♚decade. This time has been good for me.

“Th💫e longer 🎉time goes on, the more I can see that I stayed at Haas too long.

“When you step away, you get clarity – and you can 💯see what you need to do. While you’re there, you’re in denial, you thi꧃nk you can do it but you cannot.

“When I was there, with what we had, you could still fight for being seventh, eighth or ninth – but you couldn’t fight for podiums without the same weapons as the ꦿother guys.

“Doing that in the꧒ long-term is not what I want to do in life. I don’t want to be seventh again. I’ve done that. I want to be able to fight, to battle at the front.

“When Toto Wolff started with Mercedes, the team at the time was ♋not at the top.

“Yes, they had the advantage of the engine at the beginning, but he set eve﷽rything up right to be success🐼ful in the mid-term – and they won eight constructors’ championships.

“It’s the same ꦚthing with Red Bull. How long did it take for them to get there?

“E𒈔very year, they kept on getting better. You need that patience and long-term planning.

“I would come back to F1 in the future, but it needs to be the right pro♏ject, done right.”

Steiner was replaced as Haas team principal by Ayao Komatsu, a move which brings his engineering experti🍷𓃲se to the forefront of the team.

Driver Kevin Magnussen said about the change of boss: “I 🌱don't want to compare to Guenther all the time, because that is in the past.

"We're just looking ahead and I think ꦯthe atmosphere in the team is very healthy at the moment♚, the engineers are super-motivated.

"I feꦏel in the garage, there's a fresh outlook, a fresh start in a way and that has given everyone a bit of hope and a bit of a boost, feeling like this is a new opportunity."

Haa𝄹s finished bottom of the F1 constructors’ championship twice in the past three years.

Steiner has insisted that he ▨requested investment from Gene Haas which ultimately spelled the end of his tenure.