WhenGeneHaasopted not to renew the contract of his team principal Guenther Steiner just before New Year, it made Mike Krack –who joined Aston Martin in 2022 – the third longest-serving team principal in Formula 1! Only Christian Horner and Toto Wolff are ahead of him, emphasising the extraordinarily rapid turnover of team bosses in recent years.
A number of factors have driven it. But fundamentally it’s about F1 readjusting to the new post-Covid, Netflix-based, cost-capped landscape. How so? First, here’s a recap of the recent changes.