Guenther Steiner, well-liked star of Components One docuseries Drive to Survive, has left Haas after eight seasons on the helm of the American staff.

Steiner led Gene Haas’ staff because it joined the championship in 2016.

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The Italian, who has turn into a cult F1 character in recent times for his outspoken and blunt method, has departed following Haas’ last-placed end within the constructors’ championship final season.

Technical director Simone Resta, who joined from Ferrari in 2021, has additionally left the staff.

Japan’s Ayao Komatsu has been promoted from trackside engineering director to interchange Steiner, that means 2024 shall be his first time main an F1 staff.

Staff proprietor Gene Haas mentioned he sees Komatsu’s background as important in reviving the staff’s aggressive fortunes.

“I might like to begin by extending my due to Guenther Steiner for all his exhausting work over the previous decade and I want him nicely for the longer term,” the staff proprietor mentioned.

“Shifting ahead as a company it was clear we have to enhance our on-track performances. In appointing Ayao Komatsu we essentially have engineering on the coronary heart of our administration.

“We now have had some successes, however we must be constant in delivering outcomes that assist us attain our wider objectives as a company. We must be environment friendly with the assets we’ve got however bettering our design and engineering functionality is vital to our success as a staff.

“I am wanting ahead to working with Ayao and essentially guaranteeing that we maximize our potential — this actually displays my want to compete correctly in Components One.”

Haas will appoint a European-based chief working officer within the close to future to help Komatsu, who the staff mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday will “take duty for the staff’s total technique, and in the end on-track efficiency, with a quick to maximise the staff’s potential by way of worker empowerment and structural course of and effectivity.”

Komatsu had a protracted stint as race engineer for Romain Grosjean, first at Lotus, earlier than following the Frenchman to Haas when he joined the start-up staff in 2016.

The Japanese native began his profession as a tyre engineer for British American Racing (BAR) in 2003, earlier than transferring to Renault (which later grew to become Lotus) in 2005.