Mazepin out at Haas

[donnieleblanc]

Not surprising. Replacement driver selection will be interesting.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/05/mot ... index.html

[SeanMAIN]

Fantastic. Love to see Andretti-Hass, or just Andretti Global F1 now. Enough of the Hass crap show.

[Joaquin]

Yeah. This is a good opportunity for Andretti. F1 will be safer from now.
Would like to see Giovinazzi taking the seat. A good enough driver to see if Mick is really valid or only a name. Pietro Fittipaldi hasn't demonstrated nothing up to now

[SeanMAIN]

Agreed. Giovinazzi came on strong and deserves a chance. Haas, however needs to sell. They don’t seem to have the desire to advance, much less ever see the front of the grid. Success in NASCAR does not translate to success in F1. All they provide is a great soap opera for Netflix.

[donnieleblanc]

Agree with selling Haas. Haas fizzled rather quickly, and while that’s not historically uncommon for new entrants, it seems like they are just there to be there at this point.

[cbk57]

There is always a team at the back of the grid. If they find their way foreword great, if they don't they don't. Why is it a problem for anyone other than Haas if they are the slowest team or not? It is not our money being spent. Also teams come and go, it is the way of racing. Maybe Andretti comes in and we get another team, maybe Andredtti buys a majority of Haas, that seems like there could be an opening now for something like that. But someone has to own the worst team in the series, If Haas leaves it will just be someone else.

[SeanMAIN]

True, they just seem to have a lack of heart. I’d like to see SOMEBODY from America with a proper racking pedigree give it a go. Penske will never give it a go, but Andretti is a perfect candidate. Even Williams tries to improve now that they have new owners. Gene Hass would be a fool not to link up. An absolute fool.

[Icon_Modeler]

I for one think that Haas and Andretti combining is a horrible idea. Haas has shown that they have no interest in improvement. Gunther Steiner's quotes are the only thing good (funny) coming out of Haas. I would hate to see Andretti saddled with the baggage that would come along with any Haas merger. Let Andretti forge his own path and lets see what comes of it. Hell he can't do any worse now could he??!!

[SeanMAIN]

I would disagree. He seems to have a pretty successful relationship with Tony Stewart. I guess time will tell.

[daveyman]

Somebody needs to show Gunther Steiner the door. The guy is a cartoon.