MoneyGram Haas F1 Team has appointed Ayao Komatsu as its new Team Principal, with Guenther Steiner departing the group with quick impact, having led its operations for the previous decade. Komatsu, promoted from his position as Director of Engineering, has been with the staff since its debut season in 2016 – beginning as Chief Race Engineer.
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With over 20 years of Formula 1 expertise in engineering and administration, the 47-year-old Japanese engineering graduate commenced his profession in motorsport at British American Racing earlier than an extended tenure at Renault. Komatsu will now oversee all competitors components of the enterprise as Team Principal.
Komatsu will take duty for the staff’s total technique and in the end on-track efficiency, with a quick to maximise the staff’s potential by way of worker empowerment, structural course of, and effectivity.
To additional strengthen staff operations off-track and in assist of Komatsu’s performance-led focus as Team Principal, a European-based Chief Operating Officer will probably be appointed to handle all non-competition issues and departments; the position is anticipated to be based mostly at MoneyGram Haas F1 Team’s Banbury facility.
Gene Haas, Team Owner at MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, commented:
“I’d like to begin by extending my due to Guenther Steiner for all his onerous work over the previous decade, and I want him nicely for the longer term. Moving ahead as a company, we clearly want to enhance our on-track performances. In appointing Ayao Komatsu as Team Principal, we essentially have engineering on the coronary heart of our administration.
We have had some successes, however we should constantly ship outcomes that assist us attain our broader objectives as a company. We should be environment friendly with our sources, however bettering our design and engineering functionality is significant to our success as a staff. I’m wanting ahead to working with Ayao and maximizing our potential – this displays my want to compete correctly in Formula 1.
Ayao Komatsu, newly-appointed Team Principal of the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, acknowledged:
I’m naturally very excited to have the chance to be Team Principal at MoneyGram Haas F1 Team. Having been with the staff since its observe debut again in 2016, I’m clearly passionately invested in its success in Formula 1. I’m wanting ahead to main our program and the assorted aggressive operations internally to make sure we will construct a construction that produces improved on-track performances.
We are a performance-based enterprise. We clearly haven’t been aggressive sufficient lately, which has been irritating for us all. We have improbable assist from Gene and our varied companions, and we need to mirror their enthusiasm with an improved on-track product. We have an ideal staff of individuals throughout Kannapolis, Banbury and Maranello, and collectively, I do know we will obtain the form of outcomes we’re able to.
The 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship commences with pre-season testing on the Bahrain International Circuit from February 21-23, with the season-opener – the Bahrain Grand Prix- on the identical venue from February 29 – March 2.
About MoneyGram Haas F1 Team:
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team debuted within the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in 2016, turning into the primary American Formula 1 staff since 1986. Founded by industrialist Gene Haas, MoneyGram Haas F1 Team relies within the United States on the identical Kannapolis, North Carolina, campus as his championship-winning NASCAR staff, Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas based Haas Automation, North America’s largest CNC machine instrument builder and chairman of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team.
