Edd Straw

The race is on, and Haas has made a promising start to the new regulations, but now in its 11th season in F1, how is its Toyota deal helping the team to grow?

And what realistically is its overall potential, given its unique setup and facilities?

I'm Ed Straw, and joining me to talk all things Haas is Scott Mitchell-Mowne.

Well, Scott, doing something a little bit different because we spent some time with Haas in various locations, actually in the gap between Miami and whatever the race before that was.

It was a long time ago, Japan, that extended gap.

So good chance to take a deep dive into one of F1's perhaps less heralded, but in many ways, most interesting teams.

Absolutely.

You visited the factory in Banbury, and a day later, I went to the Silverstone TPC test with Gary Anderson.

We've already done a tech podcast that we recorded in the garage there at Silverstone, so you can find that in the Race F1 tech show.

But we're going to be talking about other things, a little bit more the broader team.

And we've got an interview, in fact, coming up later on with Pierre Genon, who is the Toyota project manager, who'll tell us more about that deal, because the whole Toyota thing is pretty significant.

But

First off, Scott, let's look at Haas's setup because they're sixth in the Constructors' Championship.

Good start to the new regulations, dependent on that technical partnership with Ferrari.

So it gets as many of the latest spec transferable components as are permitted.

Most of the car, except the aerodynamic parts, that means you've got the monocoque you've got to do as well and a few other key areas.

But a lot of the architecture and the bits and pieces that you need to make an F1 car run but don't influence performance so much, plus things like suspension, that's Ferrari.

It's also got the Dallara deal.

More recently, Toyota.

It's got the Ferrari design base as well.