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The Way It Is: More to Haas than meets the eye.

Friday, 10th August 2007

There's much more to Carl Haas Auto than meets the eye.

“Carl raised me from a pup,” Wrzesinski grins. “Carl takes care of his people on everything he does. People don’t come and go at Haas Auto or Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. He brings in good people, looks after them and they stay with him. Many of us met when we were single and a little bit wild and crazy, and now everybody’s got wives and kids and families. Carl takes care of his people and there’s no desire to leave. In this soldier-of-fortune kind of auto racing world, that’s a rare thing.”

Haas says building long-term relations with his employees has been a key to his success in racing. “The people are everything,” Haas declared.

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