Haas

The Stats

FIRST GP: 2016 | GPS: 171 | CHAMP. BEST: 5TH | RACE BEST: 4TH | Poles: 1
Full Team Name MoneyGram Haas F1 Team
BaseKannapolis, US
Team PrincipalAyao Komatsu
Technical DirectorAndrea De Zordo
ChassisVF-24
EngineFerrari 066/12
First Podiumn/a
First Winn/a
Last Winn/a
Most Successful TrackRed Bull Ring, Austria | 1 x 4th

The Drivers

Nico Hülkenberg

AGE: 36 | GPS: 208 | CHAMP. BEST: 7th | RACE BEST: 4th | Poles: 1

Kevin Magnussen

AGE: 31 | GPS: 168 | CHAMP. BEST: 9th | RACE BEST: 2nd | Poles: 1 | Podiums: 1

The Bio

The youngest team on the grid, Haas made their highly impressive debut in 2016 and, in the process, became the first all-American-led F1 squad in three decades. Founded by industrialist Gene Haas, they are based in the United States on the same Kannapolis, North Carolina facility as his championship-winning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

The Ferrari-powered team, led by the charismatic Guenther Steiner, had their best year in 2018 with a fifth-placed finish in the World Constructors’ Championship. Whilst there was some controversy about the similarities between that year’s Haas and the previous year’s Ferrari, it appeared that the American team were on the rise.

Things didn’t work out that way, though. Over the next three seasons, Haas found themselves slipping towards the back of the field and spent 2021 with their two rookie drivers more often than not fighting over last place.

That was somewhat down to the fact that development on the car was abandoned before the season even began, with the focus very much placed on the new regulations in 2022. Having cut their ties with the Mazepin family – both in terms of the Uralkali funding from father Dmitry and the seat given to his son Nikita – after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kevin Magnussen returned to the team as they moved back up the pecking order.

In 2023 he was joined by the man with whom he once had an infamous post-race run-in, Nico Hülkenberg.

The Photos