Following a powerful seventh-place end within the System 1 Constructors’ Championship in 2024, Haas enters 2025 with a totally new driver lineup. Esteban Ocon has joined the staff after a transfer from Alpine, and super-sub Oliver Bearman earned a promotion to a full-time seat with Haas alongside him.
Now the staff is about for one more first, their first-ever Testing of Earlier Automobiles (TPC) run this week in Spain.
Underneath F1 rules groups can use outdated automobiles for testing periods all through an F1 season. Haas has by no means utilized this regulation till now, and later this week the staff will head to Circuito de Jerez on the outskirts of Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, for the session. The staff will use the VF-23, their challenger for the 2023 season, for the check.
Along with Ocon and Bearman, Toyota GAZOO Racing driver Ritomo Miyata will take part within the check. Final yr Haas introduced a “technical partnership” with TGR, below which the 2 entities will “share experience and data, in addition to sources.”
When that association was introduced, TGR pointed to the partnership as a method of growing their very own drivers alongside Haas.
“We’re happy to announce that MoneyGram Haas F1 Crew and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing have concluded a fundamental settlement to enter a technical partnership similar to Haas car growth. We wish to specific our gratitude to Mr. Gene Haas, Mr. Ayao Komatsu, Mr. Stefano Domenicali (CEO – System 1), Mr. Fred Vasseur (Crew Principal – Scuderia Ferrari), and all our present companions of the staff for his or her distinctive cooperation and understanding on this collaboration,” mentioned Tomoya Takahashi, President of GAZOO Racing Firm. “By competing alongside MoneyGram Haas F1 Crew on the pinnacle of motorsports, we purpose to domesticate drivers, engineers, and mechanics whereas strengthening the capabilities of MoneyGram Haas F1 Crew and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing, and we need to contribute to motorsports and the automotive business.”
Following this landmark TPC session for Haas, they’ll be part of the opposite 9 F1 groups at one other first for the staff, and the game. F1 begins the 2025 marketing campaign with a launch occasion at The O2 Enviornment in London subsequent month that includes all ten groups, partly to have fun the game’s seventy fifth season.