{"id":141662,"date":"2018-04-23T19:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141662"},"modified":"2018-04-23T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:07:22","slug":"how-haas-became-a-competitive-f1-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141662","title":{"rendered":"How Haas became a competitive F1 force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"strapline\"><em>The revelation of the season? Possibly. A growing force? Certainly. But how have America&#8217;s lone F1 team done it &#8211; and where do they go from here? In a rare joint interview, Lawrence Barretto speaks to Haas team owner Gene Haas and Team Principal Guenther Steiner to get the answers\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last American venture that attempted to get a Formula 1 team up and running &#8211; US F1 &#8211; failed to make it to the grid. The previous three new F1 squads that did make it to the grid &#8211; Virgin, Lotus Racing and HRT &#8211; lasted just a few years before shutting their doors. So when, in 2014, NASCAR team owner and machine tool magnate Gene Haas announced plans to create an F1 project from scratch, many felt the odds were stacked against him\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/features\/2018\/4\/how-haas-has-become-a-competitive-force.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation of the season? Possibly. A growing force? Certainly. But how have America&#8217;s lone F1 team done it &#8211; and where do they go from here? In a rare joint interview, Lawrence Barretto speaks to Haas team owner Gene Haas and Team Principal Guenther Steiner to get the answers\u2026 The last American venture that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141663,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141662\/revisions\/141663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}