Components 1 returns to motion this week with the Canadian Grand Prix, and the race marks a milestone second for Haas: The two hundredth race since they joined the game again in 2016.
Within the workforce’s media advance forward of the Canadian Grand Prix, Group Principal Ayao Komatsu paid tribute to a “milestone” that your complete workforce must be “happy with.”
“Montreal is our two hundredth race, however it doesn’t really feel that way back that we have been celebrating our one centesimal, however ten seasons is a very long time. It’s arduous to place into phrases however it’s a milestone that we should always all be so happy with, and we’re nonetheless
very a lot on the journey to enhance the workforce, therefore it looks like one other race,” stated Komatsu. “When you consider it although, from nothing to 200 races is critical as a result of not many new groups survive greater than two seasons, they usually disappear with out scoring a single level. The actual fact we’re preventing within the midfield and aren’t glad after we’re not scoring factors at each race, that’s a great factor.”
The Haas boss then addressed the workforce’s shared targets, beginning with preventing to the entrance of the midfield, which might begin with “factors” in Montreal.
“Our purpose is excessive, we need to be on the entrance of the midfield, and there’s a lot happening at this workforce proper now,” added Komatsu. “For our two hundredth race, I actually hope we are able to rejoice with factors, and we’ll do our greatest. There’s no higher place than to rejoice it in Montreal, it’s such a cool metropolis with an incredible circuit, and the vibe is superb.”
The workforce can also be celebrating the milestone with a bespoke livery for the Canadian Grand Prix, a gray design that the workforce used for his or her debut race again in 2016:
Haas introduced an improve package deal to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in the course of Could, a race that kicked off the current triple-header. Whereas Haas didn’t deliver dwelling any factors from Imola, Esteban Ocon’s seventh-place end on the Monaco Grand Prix the next week added six vital factors to the workforce’s tally. Because the grid heads to Montreal Haas sits seventh within the F1 Constructors’ Championship standings with 26 factors, simply two factors behind sixth-place Visa Money App Racing Bulls.
Whereas Komatsu believes the improve package deal is working, he conceded the remainder of the grid isn’t staying nonetheless.
“I feel the improve we dropped at Imola has labored as a result of it did enhance our high-speed efficiency, and the automotive is certainly higher. The factor is correct now, everyone is transferring, so it’s troublesome to utterly decide as you possibly can’t go solely by competitiveness, however with the whole lot we measure ourselves, it’s working,” stated Komatsu. “In Montreal, will we see the complete extent of it? In all probability not because it hasn’t bought high-speed corners, it’s all about straight-line velocity, low-speed traction and chicanes.”
Nonetheless, Komatsu believes factors are on the desk in Montreal.
Saying that, I feel we might’ve scored factors in each race bar Melbourne and Jeddah, and I don’t see Montreal as something totally different.”
