Haas announce launch date for 2024 F1 car

Formula One’s sole American workforce Haas have change into the final workforce to verify the launch date of their 2024 F1, because it hopes to raise itself out of the underside of the pecking order following their troublesome 2024 F1 marketing campaign.

The Kannapolis-based outfit has as we speak revealed that it’s going to pull the wraps off its new F1 car on February 2, opting for a digital presentation.

Haas proprietor Gene Haas elected to make tweaks to the construction of his Formula One workforce, ousting Guenther Steiner who has led the outfit since its beginning again in 2015. The American determined to switch the Italian with former Engineering Director Ayao Komatsu.

The American workforce nonetheless builds on the construction that it established when it joined the game with its operation cut up throughout three areas – the UK, USA and Italy – and operates a mannequin the place they take their chassis from Dallara. Furthermore, Haas buys a raft of components together with the engine from Ferrari and the aero from their very own design workforce, positioned in an workplace at Maranello.

Speaking of the challenges forward of the brand new season, Komatsu added: “Of course, I’m not trying to be Guenther Steiner!” he says. “He’s a really totally different individual. We bought on, truthfully, actually, rather well.

“We respect one another, we respect one another’s positions and job roles throughout work and off work as effectively. We used to go to dinner quite a bit as effectively over a race weekend – once more, to not speak about work however as a result of we bought on fairly effectively. But I’m not right here to switch Guenther Steiner as a personality.

“He’s a really totally different character, as you already know, and he has bought very totally different strengths and weaknesses to me. I’m not attempting to be another person and Gene is aware of that and if Gene wished a Guenther Steiner alternative in that means, he would have appointed any individual else. So I perceive that Gene desires one thing totally different and I’ll attempt to be the most effective model of myself fairly than attempting to be any individual else,” Komatsu mentioned.