Scott Mitchell-Malm
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And into a really interesting phase at the moment with obviously the fledgling Toyota technical partnership and probably its best driver pairing that it's ever had.
So certainly had a good start to 2026.
So loads to talk about and loads to see when we went on our respective jaunts.
Well, you can look at it in two ways because if you look at the...
the core, I guess the...
The full-time Haas personnel, it's a small F1 team.
If you look at its design team, it's a very small F1 team.
If you look at its production team directly employed by Haas F1, it's an almost non-existent F1 team with its outsourcing to various partners, Dallara being a key one early on and still very much a significant player in the Haas ecosystem, but not quite as exclusive as it once was.
Because Haas has these dependencies, its entire existence was hinged on the Ferrari deal and then getting Dallara to do all of its production and the simulation work.
That side of things has always been outsourced, basically.
So it's kind of been a lean, mean racing machine in terms of what it runs out of the Banbury headquarters in the UK.
And then you have personnel from Ferrari seconded to the Haas team working out the Marinello facility and so on and so forth.
But...
All of that that I'm kind of touching on there is an example of how actually the Hastef One team is massive.
It's a sprawling enterprise trying to make multiple sites work, effectively two core Italian components in that Marinello design facility and what's going on at Dallara, Banbury headquarters.
It's kind of like the beating heart of the team.
That's what a few people that I spoke to on the day described it as.
And now, obviously, yeah, what they're doing with Toyota.
Now, that is ostensibly the Germany headquarters in Cologne, what was Toyota Gazoo Racing.
But the rebrand that it had for this year has escaped my mind exactly what it's called now.