Scott Mitchell-Malm

Will it be a way of, you know, in the same way that, you know, Ferrari personnel end up working for Haas for a while?

Toyota wants to use this to grow its people.

And you see it with the drivers, how many different Toyota drivers have taken part in the testing program, but it's also engineers.

So what kind of talent do they have within those ranks that could join and bolster the Haas workforce?

So I would say kind of the scope of what it's capable of doing and the strength in depth of the people doing it are obvious areas in which Toyota can support Haas in the sort of medium term.

Then longer term, what does it want to do?

Does it want to make this kind of

Toyota F1 through the back door, does it want to be even more overt than that and just make it its works team?

Does it want to build an engine eventually?

I suspect that's not necessarily on the table because Haas, I think, see the Ferrari deal was very much critical to the way it goes about things in the medium term, maybe even the long term as well.

But yeah, I mean, right now, what Toyota's offering has raised the ceiling quite nicely.

But what I'm not sure, and I don't know how you feel about this, I really don't know whether it's Toyota's appetite or Jean's appetite that is going to be the next bottleneck.

Yeah, and that's kind of exactly how it was envisaged when it was set up as that technical partnership in October 2024.

The whole point, and Aya Komatsu, the Haas team principal, talked about this at the time, was that they would basically see how it goes.

Like, where are going to be the areas that both can benefit?

How can it be escalated?

So, you know, the test program and the commitment to doing a simulator came around quite quickly.

But then for 2026, and you mentioned it earlier,

they expanded into the title partnership role as well.

And that is something that's given it a lot more prominence.