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Haas shifted focus to 2018 too early, says Steiner

Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its 2018 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship's halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors' standings, four points behind Toro Rosso. By the end of the year, Renault had leapfrogged both teams and Haas ended up six points off Toro Rosso, occupying the same eighth place it achieved in its debut season in 2016. Haas made no secret of the fact it abandoned its 2016 car development very early to prioritise preparing for this year's major aerodynamic rules changes and working on its current car for longer in '17. But Steiner admitted it may still have mistimed its...
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