Laurence Edmondson, F1 Scribbler
Unused Haas group most important Ayao Komatsu has mentioned he has negative aim of being a like-for-like alternative for his predecessor Guenther Steiner, however added he’s simply as favor to the usage of evil language.
Latter date Haas introduced Steiner’s agreement had not been renewed for 2024, with Komatsu, the group’s former director of engineering, selected to breaking in the lead activity.
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Talking to media on Tuesday, Komatsu was once resistant to expose main points of his deliberate adjustments to the group’s construction as he had but to talk with the heads of the group’s design place of job in Maranello, Italy.
The 47-year-old Eastern engineer has a fairly low crowd profile in comparison to Steiner, who was a famous person within the game because of his straight-talking, continuously foul-mouthed, appearances at the Netflix docuseries ‘Force To Live on.’
Komatsu mentioned group proprietor Gene Haas had picked him exactly as a result of he would carry a special skillset to the position of group most important.
“Of course, I’m not trying to be Guenther Steiner,” Komatsu advised newshounds. “He’s a very different person.
“We were given on, in truth, in point of fact, in point of fact smartly. We admire every alternative, we admire every alternative’s positions and activity roles throughout paintings and stale paintings as smartly. We old to exit to dinner somewhat a bundle over a race weekend — once more, no longer to speak about paintings however as a result of we were given on nice-looking smartly.
“But I’m not here to replace Guenther Steiner as a character. He’s a very different character, as you know, and he has got very different strengths and weaknesses to me.
“I’m no longer seeking to be any individual else and Gene is aware of that, and if Gene sought after a Guenther Steiner alternative in that approach, he would have appointed anyone else.
“So I understand that Gene wants something different and I will try to be the best version of myself rather than trying to be somebody else.”
Requested if he cursed up to Steiner, Komatsu joked: “This is not something I’m proud to say, but my language is not great! I swear way too much, but, again, I try not to do that.”
Komatsu additionally mentioned he had negative aim of filling the space that shall be left via Steiner within the upcoming layout of Netflix’s clash display.
“Honestly, my job role, fundamentally, is to improve the team’s competitiveness,” he added. “So I’m focused on that. So that’s my focus full stop.
“It’s no longer like I’m going to be consciously on the lookout for sure publicity to advertise the group’s recognition, that’s no longer my activity.
“At the end of the day, that’s somebody else’s job, as far as I’m concerned. Again, I made that clear to Gene.”
Free interviews with Steiner and Gene Haas closing date urged their fracture was once because of a extra in opinion concerning the group’s year.
Steiner had referred to as for extra funding within the group and its amenities, which can be fracture between the United Kingdom, Italy and Kannapolis, North Carolina, past Haas believes extra might be completed with the present construction.
Generation Komatsu, who has been on the group since its first season in 2016, admitted the setup of the group isn’t very best, he believes a bundle extra can also be completed the usage of its current sources.
“If you’re setting up on a blank sheet of paper, you’re not going to set up an F1 team with two separate factories in the UK and Italy, but that’s how we started and that was very beneficial in ’16, ’17, ’18 to get off the ground,” Komatsu mentioned.
“Then of course the landscape changes, certain regulation changes happen, so the team needs to develop. Those kind of things we need to assess continuously. But again, if you ask me is that ideal, having a UK office here and an Italy office there? No. But is that a main constraint? No. Can we do better? Absolutely yes.
“In order that’s what I’m serious about. If we get [the] most out of ways we arrange, and after if after that turns into proper, we can’t do the rest higher with the way in which we arrange, after we will discuss that. That’s my technique, if you happen to like.
“But of course you’ve got to have that, not in the back of your mind, but as a strategy medium, long-term where you might want to go. But that’s not my focus at the minute.”
