#it doesnt help safety at all to have a car like the haas out on track

[callumilott-archive]

Do you think the Haas looks worse than it is because it's being driven by two rookies who are still adjusting to F1? Mazepin and Mick both have more F1 experience than other rookies (Mazepin through buying rides and Mick through Ferrari) but they are still very inexperienced compared to everyone on the grid except for Yuki.

Or was it this bad last year but the experience of Romain and Kevin masked how bad the car is?

Part of me wishes the Haas was horribly slow so the FIA could use the 107% rule.

i think it might play a significant part yeah, mick seems to have less incidents because his driving style is very different to mazepin’s, a lot less aggressive, and the car doesnt seem to like aggressive driving. honestly i don’t think romain and kevin’s experience masked much at all, as far as i remember the haas was also dogshit last year, kevin had probably the most technical retirements of anyone in the field, romain complained about the car pretty much 3 times every round and there were some particular incidents. my memory is godawful so i’m not sure if these incidents happened in 2019 or 2020. last year in imola kevin complained of a horrible headache on the radio, probably because the vibrations in the car were so bad, and they ultimately retired him because it wasnt possible for him to continue. i also remember kevin saying this was the worst experience he’d ever had in a race car ever (my brain says this mightve been canada 2019 but i’m not sure - but the 2019 car wasn’t any better). and of course there was romain’s crash in bahrain. now i don’t know how much of that could be attributed to the car being shit, but i do know that f1 cars should not explode upon impact in any situation. 

if anything, i think romain’s reputation for being a crasher/spinner/whatever made people take his complaints a lot less seriously, but neither him nor kevin were happy with that car in any way. what worries me is that haas have already said in no unclear terms that there will be no development on the car this year. obviously it’s pointless to try and have them fight for points, but the fact that it’s so unstable and terrible where you have 2 experienced drivers complain about it, and now put 2 rookies in it with hardly any experience? i can only pray that we end this season with everyone safe and sound tbh. and the fia just allowing them to let this piece of garbage (the car, before we start on mazepin. hes also a piece of garbage but i meant the car in this particular situation) on track? we been knew the fia doesn’t consider safety its biggest priority even if they say they do, but the blatant disregard for the safety of their drivers just has me seeing red. motorsport is dangerous enough as it is, accidents can happen anywhere at any time to anyone, but it sure aint helpful to let a soapbox on wheels on track