Veteran race engineer Mark Slade has left the Haas Formula 1 team on the eve of Kevin Magnussen’s final race in Abu Dhabi. Slade was still looking after Magnussen last weekend in Qatar, but he is not at the Yas Circuit, and is understood to have cut his ties with the...
Nico Hulkenberg says he wants to “go out strong” by helping his Haas Formula 1 team to secure sixth place in the World Championship before he leaves at the end of the season. Having recently overhauled VCARB in the battle for sixth Haas lost the position to Alpine in...
Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu says his team has to “regroup” and “refocus” after a frustrating weekend in Brazil saw it lose a place in the constructors’ championship lost to Alpine. Haas had been consolidating its sixth place with good scoring relative to VCARB in...
Oliver Bearman says he learned useful lessons from an “impressively strange” Sao Paulo GP weekend at Interlagos – and has no regrets about losing his Formula 1 rookie status. The future Haas race driver was called in at the last minute when Kevin Magnussen was taken...
Oliver Bearman will contest Sunday's Sao Paulo GP as well as the Saturday sprint for Haas after the ill Kevin Magnussen was ruled out for the rest of the weekend. Bearman was called into action to replace Magnussen on Friday morning, and having been third in FP1 he...
Esteban Ocon and Nico Hulkenberg have both been confirmed as being released to drive for their future employers in the post-season Abu Dhabi Pirelli test in December. Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu has said that the Frenchman will have his first taste of the Haas VF-24....
Kevin Magnussen says that “something weird” has happened and given him confidence in the Haas VF-24 in last two races, with the Dane citing changes to the brakes as one possible reason. The team had an aero update in Austin, where Magnussen qualified eighth for the...
Kevin Magnussen admits that he was surprised to be able to repeat the good form he showed in Austin by qualifying an impressive seventh for the Formula 1 Mexico City GP. With team mate Nico Hulkenberg in 10th Haas has won the first battle of the weekend with...
Nico Hulkenberg says he would still opt for a future with Sauber/Audi despite now knowing that his current team Haas has a new partnership with Toyota. Hulkenberg signed to drive for the Hinwil team from 2025 back in April, long before Haas and Toyota discussions...
Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu says that the new collaboration with Toyota is a “perfect combination” that will help the team to move up the grid in the coming years. Haas has signed a technical partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing that starts immediately, with TGR...
Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu stresses that it’s important for the team to make progress with its latest update package from early in the US GP weekend. All teams are expected to bring upgrades of varying degrees to Austin, and they face the challenge of having...
Haas Formula 1 boss Ayao Komatsu stresses that the team’s “primary objective” in the remaining six race weekends is to outscore championship rivals RB and Williams and claim sixth place in the World Championship. An example of that focus was seen in Singapore, where...
Nico Hulkenberg says his ninth place in Singapore for the Haas Formula 1 team was “redemption” after his mistake late in the previous race in Azerbaijan. In Baku Hulkenberg got up to ninth when he passed the Carlos Sainz/Sergio Perez accident scene. He was expecting...
Nico Hulkenberg admits that he was surprised by the late call for a VSC after Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz crashed in the Formula 1 Azerbaijan GP - a scenario that contributed to him losing two places and dropping out of the points. The Haas driver passed the yellows...
Oliver Bearman says that going wheel-to-wheel with veteran Lewis Hamilton in only his second Formula 1 start in Baku was “very clean but hard” racing. Hamilton got past Bearman in the late stages, and then both men gained places from the Sainz/Perez crash. They also...
Oliver Bearman impressed his Haas team in Azerbaijan on Friday on what he called a “dry run” ahead of his fulltime Formula 1 graduation next season. The teenager has stepped into the team as a one-off replacement for Kevin Magnussen, who has been banned for a race...
