Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has explained that the team won’t go its usual path by not taking the new Ferrari F1 front suspension in 2025. It’s the final year of the current generation of Formula 1 cars. Huge changes are coming in 2026 and teams are already in full development mode. With the 2025…
Haas has quite literally turned its fortunes around in 2024 and is set to achieve a financial goal in 2025 under the ownership of Gene, and led by Ayao Komatsu. The Moneygram Haas F1 team joined the sport in 2016 and has spent the past decade steadily climbing the ranks, often under the radar. For…
At their select media day on Monday, Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu implied that Oliver Bearman is the first in line to replace seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari if the young Brit continues to impress the grid during his two-year tenure with the American team. Furthermore, the 48-year-old declared that both Bearman and…
Haas has significantly altered the timeline and future in F1, becoming the leaders of the paddock to enhance opportunity in motorsport. The American team have made massive changes internally ahead of the 2025 season, creating a path for progression made possible for future generations. “Our technical team – the factory-based technical team – has been…
Ex-Haas race engineer Gary Gannon has joined Aston Martin ahead of the 2025 F1 season. First reported by Motorsport Network, the seasoned engineer has joined the Silverstone-based squad in an as-yet-unspecified engineering role. Before parting ways with Haas at the end of the 2024 F1 campaign, Gannon served as Nico Hülkenberg’s race engineer from the…
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu revealed that communication was the biggest change during the 2024 F1 season. The Japanese believes that the united team work helped further. Komatsu has taken over the role from Günther Steiner before the 2024 season. 12 months later, he is looking at a successful year, where the team extracted a…
Oliver Bearman captured attention when he scored points during a surprise debut with Ferrari in Jeddah last March. As a FDA member, he was already under Ferrari and Haas’ scrutiny. His F1 debut confirmed Haas’ expectations and all but guaranteed his 2025 seat with them. Bearman’s rookie season in Formula 2 is where his F1…
In 2024, Formula One said goodbye, or at least a see-you-later, to several drivers – Logan Sargeant whose disastrous stint with Williams Racing came to a fiery end in Zandvoort, Daniel Ricciardo whose disappointing return to F1 ended in Singapore, and of course the likes of Kevin Magnussen, Zhou Guanyu, Sargeant’s replacement Franco Colapinto and…
14 years on from his Formula 1 debut with Williams Racing, Nico Hülkenberg continues to impress in Formula 1 as he had a superb 2024 campaign with Haas, and he is 8th in Pit Debrief’s 2024 F1 Driver Rankings. Qualifying pace is as good as ever Many were sceptical about Hülkenberg’s return to F1 in…
After ten years in Formula One, Kevin Magnussen is heading for pastures new next season. Despite the strong performance in the final stretch of the season, his lacklustre run in the earlier races, and constantly being outperformed by his teammate Nico Hülkenberg leaves him 12th in our 2024 F1 Driver Rankings. Defensive or overaggressive? Kevin…
