Gene Haas believes his team would be putting Williams under pressure in the constructors' championship had it cut out mistakes in its second Formula One season.
Haas's F1 team is already ahead of the 29 points scored in its rookie season, having scored 35 with seven rounds still to come. Despite an encouraging step forward this year the Ferrari-powered team has also suffered long-running brake issues which it has made a top priority to solve ahead of 2018, while it has sometimes struggled to understand its random fluctuations in form this year.
American team boss Haas feels his team would be above sixth-placed Toro Rosso and closer to Williams -- 20 points ahead in fifth -- had it not incurred so many self-inflicted setbacks this year.