The first Formula One car from new team Haas will break cover when F1 testing begins on February 22nd at the Circuit de Catalunya.
The Ferrari-powered car has already passed its mandatory FIA crash test.
Rivals Manor are due to reveal their car on the same day, while McLaren’s will appear the day before.
Haas is yet to confirm details of the car’s livery and sponsorship, but published the above image yesterday showing a car with Haas logos in a dark colour scheme with an American flag on the engine cover.
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Craig Woollard (@craig-o)
27th January 2016, 10:48
It’s interesting to see a lot of teams just rolling the car out at the first test rather than a big publicised launch. All part of cutting costs perhaps?
Even more interesting that we are yet to see even a PC render of any of the cars. This time last year we had renders from both Williams and Lotus.
Luke
27th January 2016, 11:01
Didn’t McLaren issue a PC render of their car a few weeks ago?
Sumedh
27th January 2016, 11:39
Not cost cutting. Just stopping competitors from getting vital information.
In fact, if the car launch is anywhere outside of the racing track, expect it’s diffuser to be covered with a black plate and the front wing to be of last year.
Andy (@turbof1)
27th January 2016, 11:51
Although HAAS is ahead of schedule, the reason we have less car presentations this year is because the calendar has changed near the end of last year, with winter testing shifted a couple (or 3?) of weeks earlier. It makes organizing presentations much more difficult and an unnecessary waste of time and resources.
I do not agree with Sumedh by the way. Usually cars at presentations are stripped from any aero detailing, have a front and rear wing from last year retrofitted and indeed the diffuser is covered up. The competition usually is not able to pick up any usuable novelties. Even during winter testing you’ll see teams running old parts only to introduce their actual packages in Melbourne.
Will Wood (@willwood)
27th January 2016, 10:48
Finally, a silver F1 car.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
27th January 2016, 10:52
Yay.
MrBoerns (@mrboerns)
27th January 2016, 10:57
I was already worried my Premium rolex-Selling favourite Series would look even more like a bag of Toys and Candy. Now that Is some Prime Premium 2k16 livery. Gotta go Buy me another one of those rolexes!
Rick
27th January 2016, 11:18
If you mail order it remember you have to use DHL as the courier as well!!!!
MrBoerns (@mrboerns)
27th January 2016, 12:47
Isn’t there a way to have my rolex shipped……greyer?
Hope they finally ban Ferrari from using that ghastly red. like, it’s not 95 anymore, duh!
GeeMac (@geemac)
27th January 2016, 12:19
I seriously doubt that is anything like their final livery.
Luke
27th January 2016, 11:00
Are Haas using the 2015 or 2016 Ferrari engine? They think they can score points but with a year old Ferrari engine is that likely? Manor are using the Mercedes I believe, so unless its the 2016 version for Haas they’re already slightly down on horsepower on Manor.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
27th January 2016, 19:23
2016
Apex Assassin
27th January 2016, 22:06
The engine doesn’t make the car, especially in Manor’s case.
reg (@reg)
28th January 2016, 2:49
The Hispania 110 was also a Dallara-designed chassis and they proved to be the slowest of the three new 2010 teams, so I am skeptical that any points will be on offer this year. That car had a capable Cosworth powertrain that did fine for Williams that year, so that isn’t an excuse. Funding appears better this time around but that doesn’t equal success, either. I hope to be surprised otherwise.
Good luck, R8G and team!
Michel S. (@hircus)
28th January 2016, 12:17
Didn’t the team that eventually became HRT suffered several cash crunch on the way to the grid, and therefore the chassis was severely underdeveloped? I don’t think Dallara did much with it before they stopped because they were not being paid…
Chris
27th January 2016, 11:23
I actually miss the days of the Spice Girls launching the McLaren at Alexandra Palace. Always enjoyed the fortnight or so seeing the new liveries and getting a good look at new bodywork innovations.
It’s all just so….samey these days.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
27th January 2016, 11:49
Not only tests start later than they usually did, but january gets even MORE boring without a single picture of new cars… It used to be so exciting…
GeeMac (@geemac)
27th January 2016, 12:17
Not having anything happen in January is a good thing for me not a bad thing. I have made this point in connection with the season being too long before, but I seriously believe that having more F1 related content actually helps drive this notion that modern F1 is boring.
In the not too distant past you would have to wait nigh on 6 months for a new car to break cover and had nearly the same time between races. That gap built tension and made the arrival of the new season/cars all the more exciting.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
27th January 2016, 13:17
@geemac it’s summer here… holidays… there’s nothing to watch, and you have plenty of free time… a team launch would do wonders to kill some time!
sato113 (@sato113)
27th January 2016, 12:38
Manor’s racing colours were originally black right? Not red and white. So hoping Haas don’t go black too.
naz3012 (@naz3012)
27th January 2016, 13:52
If the FIA want to make cars look better, then surely a good start would be that render at the top of the page? Lower profile tyres and the front wing isn’t the snowplough/inspector gadget type thing we see these days. Maybe the engine cover is slightly unshapely and the rear wing needs lowering and widening, but even so, only two very simple changes improve the look of the car so much
Serg (@)
27th January 2016, 18:25
Again, we are talking about guidelines here. However, F1 should be all about organic development. When I look at older F1 cars, I can see the development trend in aerodynamics, yet today the cars strictly follow the very specific regulatory requirements.
Solution: minimize the rules, leaving only basic recommendations.