Haas staff boss Guenther Steiner expressed doubt about whether or not Components One’s plan to host six dash races in 2022 would go forward, with the highest groups demanding a rise within the sport’s value cap.

Components One trialled the sprint-race format at three occasions final 12 months, with qualifying introduced ahead a day to Friday and a 100 km race held on Saturday to determine the grid for Sunday’s grand prix.

The game had deliberate to roll out the format throughout six occasions this season.

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“I do not know precisely what is occurring,” Steiner stated in a digital press briefing on Friday, shortly after the U.S.-owned staff unveiled a digital rendering of their 2022 automobile.

“We’re having a Components One Fee assembly in 10 days after which we are going to see extra the place we’re with that one.

“I feel we can have three dash races however … I do not know that. So let’s have a look at the place we are able to get to, however I haven’t got the reply but.”

Components One launched a price cap final season, limiting the sum of money groups can spend in a bid to create a extra degree taking part in discipline.

The cap, launched at $145 million in 2021, has been lowered to a base determine of $140 million this 12 months.

Three of the game’s massive groups — Crimson Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari — need that cap raised to account for the elevated variety of dash races in a season once they may also be attending to grips with vehicles designed to radically new guidelines.

McLaren boss Zak Brown accused groups lobbying to lift the associated fee cap of holding the game hostage, in an open letter printed on the staff’s web site final month.

Components One bosses are set to suggest a compromise at a Components One Fee assembly on Feb. 14, retaining the associated fee cap intact however scaling again the variety of dash occasions to a few, the identical as final 12 months.

The compromise will want a minimum of 28 votes from 30 to cross, that means the three groups asking for a cost-cap improve may forestall a deal from being reached.

Steiner, nonetheless, is hopeful {that a} compromise could be achieved.

“Now we have to foyer on the opposite aspect that it [cost-cap increase] would not occur,” stated Steiner.

“There’s a governance in place that can clear up the issue out in my view.”