Edd Straw

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.

How big really is the Haas Formula 1 team?

Yeah, and it all comes from how this team originated.

It's worth just briefly reminding people of that because at first, this team was conceived as a Ferrari customer team, as in running Ferraris.

Customer teams were outlawed.

Gene Haas thought, right, this project's done.

But Gunther Steiner, who of course had connected with Haas through his work in NASCAR, came up with this idea where you take as many of the non-listed parts, as they were then called, as possible.

And so then they needed to...

draft on the aerodynamic capabilities from Dallara etc originally they had an entry for 2015 they deferred it to 16 and this allowed them to do what the 2010 new teams had failed to do which is turn up and perform at a very credible good level immediately but it's