Gunther Steiner didn't get kicked out of the Haas garage for no reason. And now a media outlet believes it has shed more light on the cause.
Officially, it was said that it was disagreements that made Haas part with the team's longtime team manager Gunther Steiner.
Both the former team manager and the team's owner, Gene Haas, hinted at this immediately after the firing became public knowledge.
And there were also disagreements in the Haas camp. Gunther Steiner himself says that he wanted to spend more money to get Haas up to speed.
– I wanted to invest in the team – he (Gene Haas, ed.) didn't want to. We simply had different views on how things should work going forward, Steiner told Auto Motor und Sport after the dismissal.
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But now the Dutch Formula 1 journalist Jack Plooj believes that the disagreement goes deeper than what should or should not be used on the Formula 1 team with Kevin Magnussen in one car.
PlanetF1 writes that.
Jack Plooj claims that Gunther Steiner himself told him that the disagreement was based on shares in Haas F1. Steiner wanted more of them in return for having obtained a number of significant sponsors.
Sponsorship agreements for the Formula 1 team have a value of up to 20 million dollars, corresponding to almost 140 million kroner.
But when Gene Haas did not want to get rid of the shares, Gunther Steiner decided to slip away, it is said.
