Steiner: We are planning a new chassis for Mazepin in Spa

Haas F1 team boss Günther Steiner was asked again to shed light on the weight differences between Nikita Mazepin’s car and that of his teammate Mick Schumacher, although he admitted that the Russian’s car is heavier, but refused to explain by how much.

After the Styrian Grand Prix, Mazepin let it be known that he was no match for his rookie colleague and team-mate Schumacher. What Steiner recognized as fact, but gave no details.

Pushing for details at the Austrian Grand Prix, Steiner explained again: “It’s down to the tolerances. It’s pretty easy to explain. You always try to do your best and one of the chassis is a little heavier, but not in all circumstances – it gets a little heavier, especially when we need a certain weight balance. It’s marginal – but it’s harder. “

Pressed on numbers, the team boss avoided the question: “No, I don’t want to go into numbers – because then we are quoted by numbers and then we go over and discuss numbers – because they can vary depending on the racetrack, and the” races, because , as I said, with the weight balance that we have to achieve. “

Steiner admitted, however, that the difference in weight affected Mazepin’s performance: “It definitely has an impact. Heavier can’t have any influence. It’s physics. The next thing you ask me is how much influence?

“Give me a time! I’m not going any further because then we start speculating because it is not a fixed number. ”

It also turned out that Mazepin was supposed to take revenge on Steiner’s ill-conceived spinning top ‘Mazespin Gift’ by giving the team boss a gift of his own – a door! The team boss explained: “Apparently in Russia you have to give a gift back when you get a gift.

“So we gave him the Mazespin’s gift, that game, so his gift was the door. The door was a present about last year or two years ago, about what happened to Kevin and … with Kevin – Romain wasn’t involved, this time he was the good one, Romain.

“So what happened to Kevin two years ago when he thought I needed a new door,” said Steiner, adding: “The plan is to have a new chassis for Belgium for Mazepin.”