Motorsport Week
  • Formula 1
    • 2025 Formula 1 Calendar
    • 2025 Formula 1 Standings
  • Formula E
    • 2025 Formula E Calendar
    • 2025 Formula E Standings
  • IndyCar
    • 2025 IndyCar Calendar
    • 2025 IndyCar Standings
  • WRC
    • 2025 WRC Standings
    • 2025 WRC Calendar
  • MotoGP
    • 2025 MotoGP Calendar
    • 2025 MotoGP Standings
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
  • WEC
    • 2025 WEC Calendar
  • IMSA
    • 2025 IMSA Calendar
  • World SBK
  • More
    • Formula 2
    • Formula 3
    • F1 Academy
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
    • World Superbikes
    • Technical Insight
    • Galleries
    • About/Contact
    • Privacy Policy
No Result
View All Result
  • Formula 1
    • 2025 Formula 1 Calendar
    • 2025 Formula 1 Standings
  • Formula E
    • 2025 Formula E Calendar
    • 2025 Formula E Standings
  • IndyCar
    • 2025 IndyCar Calendar
    • 2025 IndyCar Standings
  • WRC
    • 2025 WRC Standings
    • 2025 WRC Calendar
  • MotoGP
    • 2025 MotoGP Calendar
    • 2025 MotoGP Standings
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
  • WEC
    • 2025 WEC Calendar
  • IMSA
    • 2025 IMSA Calendar
  • World SBK
  • More
    • Formula 2
    • Formula 3
    • F1 Academy
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
    • World Superbikes
    • Technical Insight
    • Galleries
    • About/Contact
    • Privacy Policy
No Result
View All Result
Motorsport Week
Home Single Seater Formula 1

Why Haas F1 rejected investment from eventual Alpine consortium

by Sam Tomlinson
2 years ago
A A
Why Haas F1 rejected investment from eventual Alpine consortium

Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23. 18.11.2023. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 22, Las Vegas Grand Prix, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Race Day. - www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com © Copyright: Charniaux / XPB Images

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Gene Haas has revealed that he turned down interest from a consortium of investors which have since partnered with the Alpine Formula 1 team in a deal worth $200 million.

In June, it was announced that Otro Capital had acquired a 24% stake in Alpine Racing Limited, tipping the team’s valuation over the €800 million mark.

Otro’s investment was supported by RedBird Capital Partners and Maximum Effort Investments, the latter led by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds who welcomed onboard fellow Wrexham Football Club co-owner and actor Rob McElhenney.

With a series of A-Listers and sporting superstars also behind the consortium, Alpine views the investment as ‘essential to support our sporting performance over the long term’ with incremental revenue to be reinvested into the team in turn.

RelatedPosts

Ferrari missed out on the podium on home soil at the Italian GP

The solace Ferrari sought from ‘disappointing’ homecoming at the F1 Italian GP

7 hours ago
McLaren will review the late Italian GP switch with both drivers

How McLaren plans to proceed after F1 Italian GP driver swap

10 hours ago

Following the news of Gunther Steiner’s dismissal as Haas team principal, the outfit’s owner and namesake Gene Haas told Formula 1’s official website that he had dismissed interest from Alpine’s eventual investors after being unimpressed by their proposal.

“We have had outside investors come in, and they wanted to talk to us,” Haas said.

“They expect a 15% rate of return every year. Give me a 15% rate of return and I have a couple of hundred million dollars I’ll give you! They have high expectations, they have all kinds of rules.

“What their job is, they want to buy into you, and five years later they want to make a $100m profit. Quite frankly, I don’t need that kind of oversight, from people who come in with $200m – it’s not enough to entice me to do that.”

Gene Haas (USA) Haas Automotion President. 16.11.2023. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 22, Las Vegas Grand Prix, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Practice Day. – www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com © Copyright: Batchelor / XPB Images

Since joining the grid in 2016, Haas’ F1 project has struggled to take off leaving its CEO “embarrassed” that it hasn’t been able to meet performance expectations.

The team achieved its best Constructors’ Championship of fifth in 2018 but has since been unable to achieve higher than eighth, slipping to the bottom of the order in 2023 after being hampered by excessive tyre degradation and an aerodynamic package that reached a development ceiling.

Asked in the summer whether the former team principal believed that the team required further investment to become competitive, Steiner told Planet F1: “I think it’s not about money, it’s about a business model.

“If we want to keep with our business model and work with somebody, we don’t need to do this investment. If some people think they need to make the investment, it’s fine with me.”

Haas’ current business model sees the team take as many non-listed components from Ferrari as permitted by the sport’s regulations while the project is largely self-funded by Gene Haas’ tooling company Haas Automation.

“But there is more than one business model,” Steiner added. “We’re back to what we came up with in 2014 with this new business model, and we want to keep it at the moment.

“So we don’t need to make this investment. It’s not just about money in Formula 1, I think money sometimes is overrated – people think, if you invest 100 million, you can beat Mercedes.

“You can invest 100 million in your facilities and in your equipment, but then you still need the people, because the difference is the people. And running different business models is a people thing, it’s not an equipment thing. So I think there’s more than one way to do this and we’re doing it the way we want to do it.”

Tags: AlpineF1Haas
Share205Tweet128Share

Related Posts

Ferrari missed out on the podium on home soil at the Italian GP
Formula 1

The solace Ferrari sought from ‘disappointing’ homecoming at the F1 Italian GP

7 hours ago
McLaren will review the late Italian GP switch with both drivers
Formula 1

How McLaren plans to proceed after F1 Italian GP driver swap

10 hours ago
Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda clashed at Monza
Formula 1

Yuki Tsunoda becomes the latest F1 driver to condemn Liam Lawson after Italian GP clash

11 hours ago
Load More

Discussion about this post

Upcoming Races

#EventDate
17Azerbaijan GP19-21 September
18Singapore GP03-05 October
19United States GP17-19 October
20Mexico City GP24-26 October
21São Paulo GP07-09 November

Click here for the full 2025 F1 calendar

Drivers’  Standings

#DriverPts
Oscar Piastri324
Lando Norris293
Max Verstappen230
George Russell194
Charles Leclerc163
Lewis Hamilton117
Alexander Albon70
Andrea Kimi Antonelli66
Isack Hadjar38
Nico Hulkenberg37

Click here for full Drivers’ Standings

Latest Articles

Ferrari missed out on the podium on home soil at the Italian GP
Formula 1

The solace Ferrari sought from ‘disappointing’ homecoming at the F1 Italian GP

September 8, 2025
McLaren will review the late Italian GP switch with both drivers
Formula 1

How McLaren plans to proceed after F1 Italian GP driver swap

September 8, 2025
Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda clashed at Monza
Formula 1

Yuki Tsunoda becomes the latest F1 driver to condemn Liam Lawson after Italian GP clash

September 8, 2025

Follow Motorsport Week

Join our daily motorsport newsletter

* indicates required

Motorsport Week

© 2024 Motorsport Media Services Ltd

Other Links

  • About & Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Motorsport Monday

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Sign Up
  • Home
  • Formula 1
    • Latest News
    • 2025 F1 Calendar
    • 2025 F1 Championship Standings
  • Formula E
    • Latest News
    • 2025 FE Calendar
    • 2025 FE Championship Standings
  • MotoGP
    • Latest News
    • 2025 MotoGP Calendar
    • 2025 MotoGP Standings
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
    • World Superbikes
  • WRC
    • Latest News
    • 2025 WRC Calendar
    • 2025 WRC Standings
  • IndyCar
    • Latest News
    • 2025 IndyCar Calendar
    • 2025 IndyCar Standings
  • WEC
    • Latest News
    • 2025 WEC Calendar
  • Live Updates
  • Other
    • IMSA
    • Formula 2
    • Formula 3
    • F1 Academy
    • Moto2
    • Moto3
    • World Superbikes
  • Galleries
  • About/Contact
  • Privacy Policy

© 2024 Motorsport Media Services Ltd