Bad weather conditions caused delays in two aircraft with the teams’ cargo after the last race in Mexico on Sunday, with some of the cargo not arriving until Thursday.
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Alfa Romeo Racing C41 garage
That means the affected teams will work all night to ensure their cars are ready to hit the track on Friday, with provisions being made to lift the usual overnight curfew.
Haas boss Steiner said the team’s cargo had arrived in Brazil shortly before his media call on Thursday afternoon and would arrive on the route “in the next few hours”. This included the team’s engines and tools needed to work on the cars.
“I think the guys just have to work through the night, that’s the only thing you can do,” said Steiner.
“We can continue to hold the event as planned, we cannot change the schedule of the event. That is the plan, and I think it can now be done. “
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Günther Steiner, Team Principal, Haas F1 and Gene Haas, Owner and Founder, Haas F1
Günther Steiner, Team Principal, Haas F1 and Gene Haas, Owner and Founder, Haas F1
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The delay put the teams under even more pressure amid a triple headset spread across Mexico, Brazil and Qatar and ahead of a revised weekend format with a sprint race on Saturday.
When asked whether the freight delay was due to Formula 1 trying to put too many races on the calendar and staging three races on three different continents, Steiner downplayed its effects, believing that such a delay was “with can happen to a normal double headed ball “and that it is” just one of the things that happen now and then “.
Steiner added: “This year with the Corona crisis we only had to get in that amount of races [a triple-header]because in the end it got tighter and tighter, it got squeezed, and that’s why they put it in. I think we’ll get out of this, OK.
“But the FOM is definitely checking that to see if they sometimes do a risk assessment that there is a risk that we cannot do something, and that is sure to learn lessons.”
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F1 teams face a long journey from Sao Paulo to Doha after the Grand Prix on Sunday before the first F1 race in Qatar this coming weekend.
Interlagos is one of the toughest tracks for the teams to complete their pack-up, but Steiner felt a delay before Qatar would have had a bigger impact.
“I think if that delay comes to Qatar it would be a struggle,” Steiner said.
“I think for Qatar it’s the people too – it’s a long flight from here, the guys break the garage, build the cars, ship them and then jump on the plane because I think it’s about a 15 hour flight to get there plus the time difference that precedes.
“I think next week will be pretty tough. But as you said, if you have this problem next week, it will have bigger consequences than this week. “
Freight delays in Formula 1 will not affect the Brazilian weekend schedule
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