Günther Steiner has left the door to Formula 1 open.
“Yeah. I will come back if there is a project I like,” the Italian told Motorsport Week’s Up to Speed podcast.
The 61-year-old built the Haas F1 team from nothing before being pushed out at the start of 2024.
“It needs to be something which really challenges me.”
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“A project means something you can shape yourself what to do.”
Now running Tech3 in MotoGP
Steiner is not in Formula 1 at all right now. Since the start of the 2026 MotoGP season he has been CEO of Tech3, the KTM satellite outfit his investor consortium completed a takeover of in a deal worth just under 20 million euros. Long-time owner Hervé Poncharal stepped back into a consultancy role at the end of 2025, and Steiner’s business partner Richard Coleman took the team principal seat.
That set-up is deliberate. Steiner has said the arrangement lets him stay involved in top-level racing without being tied to every round of the championship, and to the podcast he explained that the same principle would guide any F1 comeback.
“For me, it’s like doing something I like to do. It’s like when I left Haas, I went into TV.”
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The Haas exit and the book that went to court
Steiner’s departure at the start of the 2024 season ended a decade in which he had built the American team alongside owner Gene Haas and, along the way, become one of the sport’s most recognisable figures through Netflix’s Drive to Survive.
The split also produced legal aftershocks. Haas Automation sued Steiner in 2024 over the use of Haas trademarks in his memoir “Surviving to Drive”. A federal judge in the Central District of California dismissed the case in September that year, ruling that the book’s use of the marks was artistically relevant to a memoir and protected under the First Amendment.
For now Steiner’s next racing chapter is unfolding in MotoGP, with the Tech3 project he took over at the start of this season.
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