Haas has launched its 2025 automotive – the VF-25 – after displaying its livery on the F1 75 Dwell occasion on the O2 Enviornment in London.
All groups have been current in London on Tuesday evening to launch the brand new season, and so they have been mandated to unveil their 2025 liveries on the occasion, however not the automobiles themselves. Haas accomplished a non-public shakedown with the VF-25 on Sunday at Silverstone and so then revealed the brand new automotive as soon as it had accomplished its F1 75 look.
“Our motivation ranges have by no means been greater heading right into a brand-new season,” mentioned staff principal Ayao Komatsu. “To have been within the battle for sixth place within the constructors’ championship all the best way to the ultimate spherical in 2024 was nice to be part of – the extent of growth we loved all year long was unprecedented in our historical past.
“To be going into our tenth season in Method 1 with the assumption that we are able to compete, and with the staff actually coming collectively the best way it did, I’m personally very excited to see what we are able to ship with the VF-25.
“All our features throughout Kannapolis, Banbury and Maranello have been working exhausting to make sure we are able to hit the bottom operating once more in Bahrain. Our design workplace in Italy, beneath the steerage of Andrea De Zordo, have labored tirelessly to evolve the profitable idea we had with the VF-24, and its upgrades, and construct on these strengths and apply into the VF-25 design.
“We’re all desperate to get going with Esteban (Ocon) and Ollie (Bearman) and get some milage beneath our belts previous to racing in Australia subsequent month.”
NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 16: <> throughout a shakedown take a look at of the Haas F1 Staff VF-25 F1 automotive at Silverstone Circuit on February 16, 2025 in Northampton, England. (Picture by Dom Romney/LAT Photographs)
Head of aerodynamics Davide Paganelli says the rear of the automotive has been focused because the staff seems to be for higher consistency all through the brand new season.
“Our focus was the factors of weak point recognized within the VF-24,” Paganelli mentioned. “With the assistance of the efficiency staff, we tried to work on the entire automotive as a bundle to have the ability to resolve the difficulty. A sign of that is that we labored loads on the rear of the automotive, and notably the rear wing. I feel that we’ve executed a extremely good job on this for 2025.
“We consider the bundle we’ve designed is a extremely good one by way of growth. Clearly, we should test if the supply is what we anticipate. If we’re capable of see on monitor what we expect we’re discovering within the wind tunnel, I feel that we are able to have an enormous increase from the very first race.
“We’ve tried to design a automotive that may adapt to completely different races, as one of many weaknesses we had final 12 months was not having the ability to have the ability to carry out on the similar stage at circuits with completely different traits. I feel that we did job in making an attempt to shut this sort of hole in addition to offering a configuration that’s higher in hotter races. We all know at first of the season now we have some sizzling races, so we should always have the ability to compete.”
Ending seventh within the constructors’ standings final 12 months, Haas misplaced out in an in depth battle with Alpine for sixth, however staff proprietor Gene Haas says he was happy with the general progress having changed Guenther Steiner with Komatsu firstly of 2024.
“We had a really encouraging 12 months in 2024 so I’m naturally trying ahead to seeing additional progress made this season with the VF-25,” Haas mentioned. “The staff actually pulled collectively final 12 months, each on and off-track, and clearly now now we have two new drivers in Esteban and Ollie to include into the staff and hopefully preserve us headed in the suitable path.
“It was thrilling to see the developments made final season and I’m trusting that momentum will proceed to develop and translate into additional efficiency positive aspects.”
