Last week, Haas announꦛced the shock departure of Steiner as team boss🐠, promoting Komatsu into the role for the upcoming season.

Komatsu has a wealth of F1 experience, particularly with Haas, joining the team൲ in 2016 alongside Romain Grosjean, who🅷 he engineered at Lotus.

Looking at the year ahead🀅, Ko♔matsu vowed to be himself and won’t necessarily try to replicate Steiner.

“Of course, I’m not trying to be Guenther Steiner!” he told the officia🦂l F1 website.&nb🔥sp;

“He’s a very different person. We got on, honestly, really, really well. We respect each other, we respect each other💛’s positions and jo🗹b roles during work and off work as well. 

“We used to go to dinner quite a lot as welওl over a race weekend – again, not to talk about work but because we got on pretty well. But I’m not here to replace Guenther Steiner as a character.

“He’s a very different character, as you know, and he has got very different strengths and weaknesses to me.🌌 I’m not trying to be someone else and Gene knows that and if Gene wanted a Guenther Steiner replacement in that way, he would have appointed somebody else. 

“So I understand that Gene wants🌄 something different and I will try to be the best version of myself rather than trying to be somebody else.”

Komatsu did joke, like 🅠his prede🦂cessor, he does have a tendency to swear.

“This is not something I’m proud to say!” he added. “My language is not gr💙ea𓆏t, I swear way too much, but, again, I try not to do that.”