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00:00The smaller teams are quite often operating on a budget that's a fraction the size of the very
00:04biggest teams like Ferrari and Mercedes. So it's not a level playing field.
00:17Guys, I mean, you know the position we are in here, you know.
00:20If I understood what Walter told me last night, there is one of everything.
00:23I'm Gunter Steiner. I'm the team principal of Haas F1 team.
00:31I love racing. It's my passion. I started off in the bottom as a mechanic.
00:37I'm doing it a long time, more than 30 years.
00:40Setting up a Formula One team in the US was my idea and I persuaded Gene Haas to do this.
00:46I think in turn one, he had no choice. Everybody was going, whatever.
00:50Gene has got a very successful NASCAR team and he knows how racing works.
00:59There's a lot of money in Formula One. Can you compete with the teams, with the big budgets?
01:06It's pretty hard, you know, when you're talking five, six hundred million or 140 million.
01:12But you just got to keep trying and trying and a lot of success in racing comes down to just being stubborn.
01:18Haas F1 is the first American Formula One team in more than 30 years.
01:24And coming in as a new team in Formula One, it's just so difficult.
01:28I'm not convinced, but I'm cautiously optimistic, as I call it.
01:32In a small team, we have less parts, less stuff. We need to do more with less.
01:36How many people in your team, all together?
01:39Two hundred and twelve.
01:43Mercedes have more people on holiday at any one time.
01:46Yeah.
01:46We are the underdogs. We are new in here, but for sure we're not here just to make the numbers up.
01:51We are here to compete.
01:59It's the...
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