Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has revealed who he would pair alongside Max Verstappen in his dream driver line-up.<\/p>\n
Verstappen is currently in his 10th campaign with Red Bull and has a contract with the team until the 2028 season.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman has had six team-mates during his stint with the Milton Keynes-based squad and could be paired with a seventh name next year amid uncertainty over Yuki Tsunoda’s future.<\/p>\n
While Isack Hadjar is the name being linked with the drive alongside Verstappen next year, Steiner has picked Gabriel Bortoleto as Verstappen’s team-mate in his own ideal line-up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would take, for sure, Max Verstappen,\u201d Steiner told LottoLand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I always said before I would take Oscar\u00a0Piastri. But I think now I would take one of the\u00a0rookies, Gabriel\u00a0Bortoleto. I would take Max and Gabriel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Expanding on building his dream team, Steiner also looked to Mercedes and Aston Martin for inspiration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe company I like, or the team I like most for the infrastructure and how they are set up, is Mercedes. I quite like that set-up they have got.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the car designer I would take Adrian Newey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would need some people around him, but we could find them afterwards. I think that would be quite a successful team. And me as team principal, obviously!\u201d<\/p>\n
Steiner parted ways with Haas ahead of the 2024 campaign and has since dipped his toes into MotoGP, leading a consortium to take over the Red Bull KTM Tech3 team.<\/p>\n
The Italian hinted he is not seeking a return to F1 in the near future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0am\u00a0very happy\u00a0not to run a team\u00a0at the moment, because it is something I have done,\u201d\u00a0he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the opportunity comes, if there is a project out there, I would be interested. But just to go to F1 to do a job as a team principal, I am not interested.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would rather do what I do now, go to half the races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has revealed who he would pair alongside Max Verstappen in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-255707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}