MoneyGram Haas F1 Team

CEO/Founder: Gene Haas
Team Chief: Ayao Komatsu
Technical Chief: Andrea De Zordo
Sports Director: Dave O'Neill

Chassis 2025: VF-25

Engine: Ferrari
Tyre: Pirelli

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Reserve Driver: -

2025 season

After a bad result in 2023 that led to the departure of team principal Gunther Stainer, in 2024, with Ayao Komatsu as general manager and Andrea De Zordo as technical director, Haas regained performance, fighting steadily for the points zone and moving up to seventh place in the Constructors' Championship.

In 2025, the driver pair changed completely with the arrival of Esteban Ocon and rookie Oliver Bearman. The French driver, who was brutally dismissed from Alpine at the end of the season, brings with him great grit and experience, while Bearman is a young talent from the Ferrari Driver Academy who has already had the opportunity to race for the American team as Magnussen's replacement in the Azerbaijan GP where he also scored a point by finishing in tenth place. 

Haas will also use Ferrari engines in 2025, and especially in 2026 at the time of the important regulatory change in order to benefit as much as possible from technical continuity.

At the O2 Arena in London on Feb. 18, the team unveiled the livery of the new single-seater in the presence of General Manager Ayao Komatsu and drivers Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman. 

At the O2 Arena in London on Feb. 18, the team unveiled the livery of the new single-seater in the presence of Team Principal Ayao Komatsu, drivers Esteban Ocon and Olivier Bearman. 

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History

The Haas F1 Team is an American Formula One racing team based in Banbury, United Kingdom, owned by Haas Automation.

The British city is a branch office of the team, formerly owned by Marussia, as a back-up for the championship's European races.

Founded by Gene Haas, former co-founder of NASCAR championship team Stewart-Haas Racing, also based in Kannapolis, it makes its debut in the 2016 Formula One World Championship. Before its debut, it was also known by the names ‘Haas Formula’ and ‘Haas Racing Developments’.

Haas is the first US team to participate in the Formula 1 World Championship since 1986, the last season in which Lola had raced; an attempt to bring an American team into Formula 1 had also been attempted by other investors between 2009 and 2010, with the US F1 Team failing to participate in the 2010 championship, in which it had entered.

The Haas team's project began to materialise in December 2013, when the FIA's call for applications from new entities to participate in the world championship was answered by Gene Haas, attempting to register Haas Racing Developments, which would later assume its current name. Subsequently, the FIA confirmed the Haas team's participation in the 2015 championship. In the following months, however, the team chose to postpone its debut until the following season, scheduling the track debut of the first car at the pre-season tests of the 2016 championship.

In early 2014, the team made an agreement with Dallara for the production of the chassis, while in September of the same year, a multi-year agreement with Ferrari for the supply of engines was announced.

On 29 September 2015, Romain Grosjean was announced as the first starting driver. On the following 30 October, Esteban Gutiérrez was announced as second driver.

The development of the first single-seater, the Haas VF-16, was led by Rob Taylor, previously also chief designer at Red Bull and Jaguar; Günther Steiner took over as team principal. The chassis was built by the Italian company Dallara, while the engines and power unit components are supplied by Ferrari.

The 2021 season therefore sees the radical renewal of the driver line-up, with Russian Nikita Mazepin (forced to race as a neutral athlete using the RAF (Russian Automobile Federation) designation to comply with the restrictions imposed by the Lausanne TAS after the state doping verdict involving the Russian anti-doping agency), chosen thanks to the support of his sponsors, and German Ferrari Driver Academy driver Mick Schumacher, winner of the Formula 2 championship, taking over from Frenchman Romain Grosjean and Dane Kevin Magnussen. The livery of the VF-21, with clear references to the Russian flag, was unveiled on 4 March together with the new Russian mining title sponsor Uralkali, linked to tycoon Dmitry Mazepin, father of driver Nikita. The team was officially renamed to Uralkali Haas F1 Team. The season turned out to be even more difficult than the previous one, with the two drivers often relegated to the last positions in the classification. A few hours before the start of the last race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Mazepin tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. As the reserve driver did not take part in any practice sessions, the stewards deemed him unfit to replace the Russian, so the team fielded only Schumacher on the grid.

Haas‘ sixth season in Formula 1 turned out to be its worst ever, with 0 points scored and tenth and last place in the Constructors’ Championship.

In the 2022 season, the driver line-up, driving the new VF-22, was to remain unchanged. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the third day of testing at the Catalonia circuit in Spain, the team blacked out the title sponsor Uralkali and removed references to the Russian flag on the car's livery. A few days later, the team ends its collaboration with the company. Subsequently, on the eve of the second pre-season test at the Bahrain circuit, the team also unilaterally terminates the contract of the team's Russian title driver, Nikita Mazepin, also due to the termination of the relationship with Uralkali, which supported the driver's career. His replacement is Danish driver Kevin Magnussen, who returns to drive for the US team after two seasons.

The start of the season, thanks also to a significant change in regulations, shows a clear growth in performance, with good results in both qualifying and races from the very first round of the season, in which Magnussen finished fifth, the best placing for the team since 2018. The Dane also scored points in Saudi Arabia and Emilia-Romagna (both in the Sprint Race and in the race). In Canada neither driver scores points, but in qualifying they manage to surprisingly take the entire third row, with Magnussen ahead of Schumacher, taking advantage of the variable weather conditions. After a series of unlucky races, Mick Schumacher finished eighth in the British Grand Prix, earning his first points in Formula One, and Magnussen tenth. This is the first double top ten finish since the 2019 German Grand Prix. The positive streak also continued in Austria: in the Sprint Race Magnussen finished seventh, earning two points, with Schumacher ninth, while in the race the German finished sixth, with the Dane eighth.

On 20 October, the team announced its new title sponsor for the 2023 season, MoneyGram.

In qualifying for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Kevin Magnussen, taking advantage of variable weather conditions, gives Haas the first pole position in its history, although later in the weekend he will be less fortunate, finishing eighth in the Sprint Race and retiring shortly after the start in the race.

Haas‘ seventh season in Formula One saw it climb to eighth in the Constructors’ Championship with a total of 37 points.

In the 2023 season, there was a change in the driver line-up: after two seasons, Mick Schumacher, the new third driver for Mercedes, McLaren and Williams, was replaced by Nico Hülkenberg, after three years as a reserve driver for Racing Point first and then Aston Martin, alongside the confirmed Kevin Magnussen. On 20 October 2022, the team announced its new title sponsor MoneyGram, being renamed MoneyGram Haas F1 Team from this year. The American team seems less competitive than in the last world championship, and only rarely manages to finish in the top ten. The few points scored in the first half of the championship are mainly signed by Hülkenberg, while Magnussen seems to be struggling, despite a brilliant fourth place in qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix. On the return after the summer break, the team only managed to reach the points zone on one occasion: Magnussen's tenth place in Singapore.

Haas‘ eighth season in Formula 1 proved very disappointing, seeing it slip back to tenth and last place in the Constructors’ Championship with a total of just 12 points.

In 2024 the team bounced back under Komatsu's leadership and finished seventh in the Constructors' Championship.

(source Wikipedia)

First race:

Australian GP 2016

First victory:

Year	Chassis	Engine	Points
2025	Haas VF-25	Ferrari	44
2024	Haas VF-24	Ferrari	58
2023	Haas VF-23	Ferrari	12
2022	Haas VF-22	Ferrari 066/7	37
2021	Haas VF-21	Ferrari 065/6	0
2020	Haas VF-20	Ferrari	3
2019	Haas VF-19	Ferrari 064	28
2018	Haas VF18	Ferrari	93
2017	Haas VF-17	Ferrari 062	47
2016	Haas VF-16	Ferrari	29

* Season with at least 1 point won (since 2000)

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