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Gene Haas: Buying a team ‘was actually a better idea'

Gene Haas has admitted that it would have been better off buying an existing Formula 1 team instead of building a new team from scratch, and revealed that he went against the suggestions of F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone to create the Haas F1 Team. 'Bernie [Ecclestone] was always saying ‘why don't you just buy an existing team?', which was actually a better idea because there were only 10 teams at the time so economically it would've been a lot more beneficial,' said Haas to Autosport. 'Bernie was probably right because there are so many advantages when you're a top 10 team.' Haas F1 have a had a strong start in Formula 1, scoring points with Romain Grosjean on four occasions, but have...
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