Haas team principal Guenther Steiner anticಞipates a major shuffle in Formula 1 staff and๊ technical heads once the 2021 budget cap takes a grip in the sport.

With each F1 team set to work with an annual $175 million budget cap from 2021, with only a hanꦬdful of exceptions within the co൲st rules, the sport’s biggest teams are expected to need to slash its staff operations to operate within the budget or face heavy sporting penalties.

Meanwhile, smaller teams like Haas do not anticipate the budget cap to have a significant hit on its current oper📖ations given it already works within🐭 a smaller budget.

With the overall goal of the 2021 shake-up aiming to close up the F1 grid, Steine🦋r predicts a side effect from the changes which is likely to see team personnel at the big three teams heading to other F1 outfits which can accommodate them.

“Absolutely right, because if they have to let staff go, that is people which need a neꦕw job,” Steiner said. “Or they pay t🐲hem this well they don’t need a new job, I don’t know about that one.

“There wiꦓll be a point where these people will knock on the door. But it✅ didn’t happen yet.

“There are people still in den🐽ial I think. It’s a bit like racers are, we are in denial of everything until it happens.”

Despite the perceived opportunities for all F1 teams with the 2021 overhauls, Steiner is still predꦅicting a painful and uncertain adaptation to the new-look rules for all t♔eams.

“It’s because it’s a big change. It can be painful and you can get🌺 lucky,” heꦫ said. “You cannot really plan what will happen because maybe some people do a good job with little effort because they luck in, or they have a good idea and worked very well.

“And then maybe you have a big team that gets it completely wron﷽g. You never know. It’s such a big change that anything could happen.”