Ayao Komatsu, Haas team principal, spoke about Ollie Bearman’s scary crash at the F1 2026 Japanese GP and how the young driver beat himself up for it. Last Sunday, one of the most talked about aspects after the Japanese GP was Bearman’s and Colapinto’s near miss. Even though the Brit suffered a 50G crash with…
Following Ollie Bearman‘s massive crash at the 2026 F1 Japanese GP, Haas’s Team Principal Ayao Komatsu reflected on the incident as a racing misjudgment shaped by extreme closing speeds. The incident took place on Lap 22 when Franco Colapinto’s Alpine suddenly lost power, creating a significant speed differential as Bearman approached from behind. This forced…
While several special liveries were spotted on the track throughout the Barcelona shakedown week and pre-season testing in Bahrain, eleven F1 teams in 2026 will now introduce one-off designs during the 22-race season as well. F1 cars are built to leave an impression not only in the literal but also in the figurative sense. It’s…
Haas F1 team principal Ayao Komatsu has explained why he’s heavily against what he called “knee-jerk” reactions and further changes to F1’s race start procedures in 2026. With the removal of the MGU-H, teams lost a key component that helped the cars to get away pretty seamlessly most of the time by the end of…
Having completing the first practice day of the 2026 F1 calendar on Friday at the Australian GP, Esteban Ocon is surprised that there is still a long way to go in learning his new Haas VF-26 challenger. Too much new information is normal at the 2026 F1 Australian GP for Haas driver Esteban Ocon Esteban…
As F1 undergoes the biggest overhaul of regulations in its history, Ayao Komatsu, Ollie Bearman, and Esteban Ocon have reflected on Haas’s performance during several rounds of pre-season testing in 2026 and what their expectations are for the Australian GP this weekend. Following the private shakedown in Barcelona that reportedly saw them clock up 391…
Haas completed a successful week at Bahrain round 2 of F1 pre-season testing in 2026. They had been running the cars over–what might seem like an error but isn’t–404 laps. Breaking it down, Haas improved from 107 laps to 127 to 170 in three days. Speaking to F1 TV, Ayao Komatsu, shared his thoughts his…
A week after Ayao Komatsu’s review of his 2025 F1 season, Esteban Ocon responded to the team principal’s statements, admitting he was not surprised by it. Ahead of the 2026 F1 Bahrain tests, Haas F1 team principal Ayao Komatsu admitted that the team “expected more” from Ocon in 2025. Ocon joined Haas from Alpine in…
Ayao Komatsu, Haas F1 Team Principal, has laid down a clear challenge for Esteban Ocon as the team prepares for the 2026 Formula 1 season. Following a debut year with the American team that fell short of expectations, the French driver faces a critical turning point in his career. Speaking to a select group of…
Haas F1 team principal Ayao Komatsu was full of praise for the team after their “fantastic” work to turn around the reliability issues that disrupted their testing week on Wednesday, the second of three days they were allowed to run in the 2026 Barcelona ‘shakedown’. After a very impressive start on Monday, with Esteban Ocon…
