The Haas F1 Team has already raised a few eyebrows in 2018, after hitting the ground running with a much more competitive car than its rivals were expecting. It's given rise to complaints from other teams in the paddock that the VF-18 is just a Ferrari 'clone', rather than the team's own handiwork. That's not gone down well with the team's eponymous owner, Gene Haas, who admitted that "it hurts" to hear such comments from their peers. "When we’re doing badly, people will say that we’re just another stupid American team," he told the Formula 1 website. "And when we’re doing well, it’s the Ferrari team. “That’s not giving credit to the guys who work here....
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