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Guenther Steiner, who served as Haas System 1 workforce principal from 2014 to 2023, has supplied recommendation to former Crimson Bull chief Christian Horner amid rumours linking the Briton to a transfer to Haas.

Haas workforce chief Ayao Komatsu confirmed that Horner had approached the American workforce however that the talks had not progressed. “Yeah, it’s true that he approached us. After which one in every of our guys had an exploratory discuss. And that is it. Nothing has gone any additional. It’s completed,” Komatsu stated forward of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Whereas addressing the hyperlink, Steiner, who labored with Horner at Crimson Bull as technical operations director from 2005 to 2008, defined on The Red Flags Podcast:

“I imply, everyone knows now from the reporting how a lot cash Christian made. I don’t assume that Haas pays him that amount of cash, that’s the very first thing.

“So, that’s my tackle it. I want I have been paid the quantity Christian was paid, however I wasn’t.

“It was answered by Ayao, I feel, that they’d talks, really, he stated. So, they will need to have had talks, I suppose, in any other case he wouldn’t say it.

Christian Horner, Crimson Bull Racing

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“But additionally, the place Christian is coming from, Crimson Bull is the workforce with the most important infrastructure, I might say, in System 1.

“They make their very own engines. I imply, yeah, you would say Audi is similar, however Audi continues to be younger in contrast with Crimson Bull, so it’s a totally completely different factor.

“Clearly, Christian doesn’t go there to take part in F1, and I suppose that got here out as a result of he talked with any person at Haas, because it was reported afterwards, and subsequently the rumours got here out that he’s going there.

“However that is how shortly rumours get legs in System 1. You converse with any person, it’s a truth.”

When requested if he had any recommendation for his former colleague, Steiner stated: “I am not going to present any recommendation. I hold out of it,” earlier than later including, “Good luck.”

Horner was changed in his position as Red Bull Racing CEO and workforce principal on 9 July 2025 and has since reached a settlement settlement with the Milton Keynes outfit that may enable him to return to the championship with one other workforce in 2026.