In comparison with the color scheme the American workforce ran on its VF-23 2023 automobile, the brand new livery just isn’t a considerable change, with the principle space of alteration being the higher nostril part.
That is now predominantly black in comparison with being white final yr, which makes the VF-24 seem darkish from all angles in comparison with its predecessor.
Whereas Haas has solely launched renders of the VF-24’s livery to this point, it is going to run its new automobile for the primary time at a Silverstone shakedown on 11 February.
“I’m trying ahead to seeing the VF-24 working and racing – a sentiment I do know I share with our companions and certainly the complete workforce,” mentioned Gene Haas, the Haas F1 workforce’s proprietor and chairman.
“In Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen, we additionally know we’ve acquired an awesome pair of drivers behind the wheel.
“Their expertise will show invaluable once more as we develop our programme by the yr.
“We’ve used the low season to place the processes in place to be higher and finally enhance our total efficiency. Quickly we get to see how we’re doing.”
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Haas VF-24 livery
Photograph by: Haas F1 Crew
The most important story of Haas’s low season involved the axing of long-time workforce principal and efficient co-founder of the squad, Guenther Steiner.
He was changed by former Haas director of engineering, Ayao Komatsu, when Steiner didn’t have his contract renewed by Gene Haas after the 2023 season concluded.
It was a disappointing marketing campaign for Haas, because it slipped again from eighth in 2022 to complete final in 2023 – its season dominated by failing to repair an in-race tyre administration drawback brought on by the aerodynamic structure of the VF-23.
In a Haas workforce assertion, Komatsu mentioned the squad is “sensible about our expectations for the VF-24 to begin”, whereas including, “it’s nonetheless an thrilling second in any F1 season to showcase the [livery]”.
However in a frank admission, he said that he expects Haas “out of the gates in Bahrain [when the sole test and first race will take place]… I nonetheless suppose we’re going to be in the direction of the again of the grid, if not final”.
Komatsu claims it is because the assets devoted to the workforce’s 2023 late-season improve bundle launched at Austin – which finally failed so as to add any efficiency to its 2023 automobile or remedy its most important points – had been taken away from the event of the VF-24.
“The explanation our launch-spec automobile just isn’t going to be fast sufficient in Bahrain just isn’t due to the standard of the folks we’ve right here, however it’s as a result of we began late after which we stopped for 2 months to do the Austin improve,” mentioned Komatsu.
“It actually diverted useful resource, so we misplaced time there, however the workforce is discovering good beneficial properties within the wind tunnel in order that’s constructive and by way of traits, it’s stepping into the suitable course.
“The main target is to have an excellent check program for Bahrain in order that we come away from the check having high quality knowledge for the workforce to analyse and perceive which course to develop the automobile.
“This implies understanding the energy and weak point of the VF-24 precisely, then put a coherent plan collectively to provide updates on the automobile, which hasn’t occurred beforehand.”
Haas as has additionally introduced that its former chief designer Andrea De Zordo has been promoted to technical director, changing Simone Resta in that function after he left the workforce the place he had been on secondment from Ferrari on the finish of final yr.
Haas is now recruiting for De Zordo’s alternative as chief designer however is anticipated to advertise from inside its F1 organisation.
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Haas VF-24 livery
Photograph by: Haas F1 Crew
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