It was a mixed 2024 F2 debut season for Ritomo Miyata, who ended the season 19th with 31 points. Despite his season best being double P5 finishes in Melbourne, the 2023 Super Formula champion’s efforts proved enough to secure Miyata a new contract with ART Grand Prix for the 2025 F2 season. Miyata will line…
After two quiet days of pre-season testing, day three delivered a shocking moment for the Haas team as part of the engine cover detached and fell onto the track. The incident occurred during the morning session when Ollie Bearman was about ninety minutes into the session. Fortunately, Haas was able to repair the damage and…
Oliver Bearman goes into his first full season in Formula 1, driving for the Haas F1 Team. The 19-year-old already has some races under his belt, but still feels like a rookie. Haas is going into the new campaign with an all new driver line-up. Oliver Bearman has been elevated up into Formula 1, while…
Oliver Bearman’s second Formula 2 season fell short of the expectations held for the driver. After an incredibly impressive F2 rookie season, all eyes were on him and many expected him to be fighting for the title. However, with new cars and PREMA struggling, the 2024 season did not go the young Brit’s way. A…
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has explained that the team won’t go its usual path by not taking the new Ferrari F1 front suspension in 2025. It’s the final year of the current generation of Formula 1 cars. Huge changes are coming in 2026 and teams are already in full development mode. With the 2025…
At their select media day on Monday, Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu implied that Oliver Bearman is the first in line to replace seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari if the young Brit continues to impress the grid during his two-year tenure with the American team. Furthermore, the 48-year-old declared that both Bearman and…
Ex-Haas race engineer Gary Gannon has joined Aston Martin ahead of the 2025 F1 season. First reported by Motorsport Network, the seasoned engineer has joined the Silverstone-based squad in an as-yet-unspecified engineering role. Before parting ways with Haas at the end of the 2024 F1 campaign, Gannon served as Nico Hülkenberg’s race engineer from the…
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu revealed that communication was the biggest change during the 2024 F1 season. The Japanese believes that the united team work helped further. Komatsu has taken over the role from Günther Steiner before the 2024 season. 12 months later, he is looking at a successful year, where the team extracted a…
Nico Hülkenberg ended his partnership with Haas on a positive note, achieving his tenth top ten finish of the season in the Abu Dhabi GP. In spite of it being a rather positive position and his best starting spot of the whole season, his happiness is marred by the fact that he had received a…
Ayao Komatsu, team principal of the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, claims that he was unaware that the BWT Alpine F1 Team had used the post-season Abu Dhabi test with the Kannapolis-based team as leverage to have Esteban Ocon forfeit the final race of the 2024 season to Jack Doohan. Ocon replaced by Doohan for Abu…
