Haas team leader Gunther Steiner said the team would have no point in continuing to compete in Formula 1 if they had no chance against the top teams.
The current F1 starting grid is split into two: Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull teams and other teams.
Some people refer to this distribution as Class A and Class B, because the teams in the middle group have no real chance of fighting the leaders.
The Haas chief said that the situation may be acceptable in the short term, but if this continues, the team's participation will be in question.
“I think this is an acceptable situation for two years,” Steiner told Motorsport.com. - But in the long run - no, it will get bored.
If at some point nothing changes, then there will be no point in being here just to be.
This business does not work as a business if you do not have the pleasure of fighting for the podiums and winning. You know, after a while, it just won't make sense to be here.
Why waste your life on frantic work day and night, fly to 21 countries of the world? Just to find out that I'm only capable of what I was last year? It makes no sense. No one.
Steiner said that not only the revision of the rules in 2021, but also the natural evolution of the current teams could shake up the peloton.
“Formula 1 has been constantly changing, the situation here is changing rapidly. I don’t think that during the three epochs of F1, the situation will remain unchanged,”he said.
“Look what F1 was like in the early 2000s. It was easy to make money, but now it is not possible. In 18 years this has become impossible.
Everything changes - and this is the part of Formula 1 that interests me. I don't want to do the same for 20 years. Something changes every time."
