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| Full name | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team |
|---|---|
| Base | Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S. (Main)[1] Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (European) Maranello, Modena, Italy (Design Office) |
| Teamprincipal(s) |
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| Technical director | Andrea De Zordo[2] |
| Founder(s) | Gene Haas[3] |
| Website | haasf1team.com |
| 2025 Formula One World Championship | |
| Race drivers | 31. Esteban Ocon[4]87.  Oliver Bearman[5][6] |
| Test driver(s) |  Ryō Hirakawa[7] |
| Chassis | VF-25 |
| Engine | Ferrari |
| Tyres | Pirelli |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 2016 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 212 |
| Engines | Ferrari |
| Constructors' Championships | 0 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Points | 380 |
| Pole positions | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 3 |
| 2024 position | 7th (58 pts) |
Haas Formula LLC,[8] competing asMoneyGram Haas F1 Team,[9][10] is anAmerican-licensed[11]Formula One racing team established byNASCAR Cup Series team ownerGene Haas in April 2014. The team made its debut in the2016 season.[12] The team principal isAyao Komatsu, who replacedGuenther Steiner who served in the role from the team's inception until January 2024.
The team is headquartered inKannapolis, North Carolina, United States – 31 mi (50 km) fromCharlotte[1] – alongside sister team andNASCAR entrantHaas Factory Team, though the two teams are separate entities. The team also established a forward base inBanbury, England, to turn cars around between races during the European part of the calendar.[3] The team maintains a design office inMaranello, which is also home toScuderia Ferrari's headquarters.[13]
Haas was the first American constructor to submit an F1 entry after the failedUS F1 project in2010,[14] and is the first American constructor to compete since the unrelatedHaas Lola outfit raced in the1985 and1986 seasons. The Haas Lola team was owned by formerMcLaren bossTeddy Mayer andCarl Haas, who was not related toGene Haas.
Following the collapse ofMarussia F1 during the2014 season and the auctioning of their assets, Haas purchased the team's Banbury headquarters to serve as a forward base for their operations.[15]
Unrestricted by testing regulations until the time they actually entered Formula One, Haas shook its new car down in December 2015 ahead of official pre-season testing at Barcelona in early 2016.[16] Haas approached Italian manufacturerDallara to build their chassis, with a power unit supplied byFerrari.[3][17] FormerJaguar andRed Bull Racing technical directorGuenther Steiner was the team principal for 10 years until 2024.[3] Haas confirmed its new car had passed the mandatory FIA crash tests in January 2016.[18]
Haas's approach of establishing a far-reaching partnership withFerrari was met with a mixed response from the paddock. The constructor was applauded for pioneering a low-cost model that would allow new teams to enter the sport and be competitive, which had been of concern to the sport for some years.[19] Conversely, Haas's approach was criticized by smaller, privateer teams who had invested in their own infrastructure and expressed concerns about the close relationship between manufacturers and satellite constructors handing more political power to the sport's larger constructors.[20]
In 2018, Haas once again came under fire after arriving at winter testing with a car that strongly resembled theFerrari SF70H, Ferrari's 2017 car. CompetitorsMcLaren andForce India both criticized the partnership between Ferrari and Haas. While no official grievances were filed at the time, McLaren CEOZak Brown questioned the relationship.[21]
During rule discussions for the2021 season in April 2019, concerns over Haas F1's B-team approach were presented byRenault and McLaren.Ross Brawn, F1's managing director of motorsport at the time, stated that Haas' business model was "...something we have to maintain for the future, for a small team to come in and be pretty respectable."[22]
Haas have also depended on Ferrari for their reserve drivers. They have completed numerous practice sessions with Ferrari reserve drivers andFerrari Driver Academy members such asCharles Leclerc,Antonio Giovinazzi,Callum Ilott andRobert Shwartzman. Former Ferrari juniorOliver Bearman, who joined the team in 2025, also participated in an FP1 session for Haas and substituted for Kevin Magnussen following his race ban at the2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and at the2024 São Paulo Grand Prix after Magnussen withdrew due to illness. Additionally, during his tenure at the team,Mick Schumacher was still a Ferrari Driver Academy member and Ferrari reserve driver.
In October 2024, Haas announced a technical partnership withToyota, although engines would continue to be provided by Ferrari. This would see the team integrate the services ofToyota Gazoo Racing, with theToyota name associated with the sport for the first time in 15 years, ever since they withdrew at the end of 2009 season.[23][24] In April 2025, as part of their technical partnership, Haas signed Toyota driverRyō Hirakawa as their test driver for the 2025 season.[25]
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Romain Grosjean andEsteban Gutiérrez drove for the team in 2016.[26][27] In the team's debut at the openingAustralian Grand Prix, Grosjean finished 6th, scoring eight points for the team. This made Haas the first Americanconstructor to win points in its first F1 race.[28] At the same race, Gutiérrez crashed out during an incident which destroyed former world championFernando Alonso'sMcLaren and caused the race to be temporarily red-flagged.[29] Another impressive race followed inBahrain, where Grosjean finished 5th. However, for the rest of the season, the team fell off the pace, only scoring points on three more occasions. Grosjean picked up all 29 points en route to 8th in the Constructors' Championship.
Kevin Magnussen drove alongside Grosjean in 2017, replacing Gutiérrez.[30] In the first race of the season, the team scored its best-ever qualifying effort, with Grosjean piloting theVF-17 to 6th place. However, in the race, both cars were forced to retire with mechanical failures.[31][32][33] The second race weekend proved better for the team with Magnussen finishing 8th, scoring his first points since his 10th-place finish at the2016 Singapore Grand Prix, and Haas's first points since the2016 United States Grand Prix, where Grosjean finished 10th.[34][35]
The team's success would continue in 2017 as Haas would go on to have their first double points finish inMonaco, with Grosjean and Magnussen finishing 8th and 10th respectively. The team finished 8th in the constructors' title for the second consecutive year after being surpassed byRenault during the final races.[36]
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In February 2018, Haas unveiled their new car, theVF-18, although not without controversy. Some competitors called for an investigation due to its resemblance to the previous year's Ferrari, theSF70H.[21][37]
Following a strong showing during winter testing, Haas had a competitive weekend inAustralia with Magnussen starting 5th and Grosjean 6th.[38] During the race, the two drivers were running in 4th and 5th, which would have given them the team's best result since its inception and half of their 2017 points tally, but both cars retired one lap after their respective pit stops. Gunther Steiner later stated in an interview that the pit-stop crew had cross-threaded the wheel nuts on both cars.[39] The team would eventually match this 4th and 5th-place result inAustria, surpassing their 2017 points total after only nine races. At theSingapore Grand Prix, Magnussen scored Haas' first-ever fastest lap.[40] 2018 was their best season to date, finishing fifth in the Constructors' Championship, one point short of doubling their previous year's performance.
The team retained their 2018 driver line up for the third consecutive year, consisting of Grosjean and Magnussen.[41] The team also took onRich Energy as a title sponsor for 2019 as part of the activation of a multi-year title sponsorship deal with Rich Energy, a British energy drink company that was previously linked to an attempted to purchaseForce India.[42]
TheVF-19 often showed impressive pace during qualifying but struggled during the race. At the opening race inAustralia, Magnussen finished 6th in what would eventually be the team's best season result. The team's qualifying pace was evident inAustria, where Magnussen recorded the 5th-fastest time but finished the race in 19th with Grosjean 16th. In July, just four days before theBritish Grand Prix, the Rich Energy Twitter account announced that the sponsorship deal with Haas had been terminated, citing "poor performance".[43] This was later denied by both the team and Rich Energy's shareholders, who asserted that the tweet was the result of a "rogue" individual.[44] For the British Grand Prix, the team elected to reverse the upgrades placed on Grosjean's car, using the same specification run in Australia, to determine the causes of the car's poor race pace. However, both drivers collided with each other on the first lap, causing a double retirement.[45] TheGerman Grand Prix provided the team's best-combined result of the season, being classified 7th and 8th after post-race penalties for other drivers.
Title sponsor Rich Energy faced numerous legal issues during the year, including being found to have plagiarized the logo of bicycle manufacturerWhyte Bikes. In September, a day after theItalian Grand Prix, Rich Energy announced the termination of the deal with Haas with immediate effect.[46] The team earned no points for the race atMonza, with Grosjean finishing only 16th and Magnussen retiring.
Haas finished the season in 9th place in the Constructor's Championship with 28 points.
Haas once again kept an unchanged lineup of Grosjean and Magnussen for the 2020 season.[47]
On the opening lap of theBahrain Grand Prix, Grosjean collided withAlphaTauri driverDaniil Kvyat and crashed through the barriers between turns 3 and 4. The impact resulted in the car splitting in two and bursting into flames. Grosjean escaped significant injury, suffering burns on his hands, and was hospitalized after the race. He remarked that thehalo head protection device likely saved his life.[48] The crash ruled him out for the rest of the season, with reserve driverPietro Fittipaldi driving in his place atSakhir andAbu Dhabi.
During the season, Haas scored 3 points, with Magnussen finishing 9th inHungary but receiving a time penalty that would drop him to 10th, and Grosjean finishing 9th in theEifel Grand Prix. The team would not score again, finishing 9th in the Constructor's Championship.[49][50]
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Grosjean and Magnussen left Haas at the end of the 2020 Championship.[51] They were replaced by RussianNikita Mazepin,[52] and2020 Formula 2 Championship winnerMick Schumacher,[53] son of seven-time Formula One world championMichael Schumacher. To survive financially, the team opted to halt the development of the 2021 car, instead focusing resources on the 2022 car. They also securedUralkali, a Russianpotash fertilizer producer, of which Mazepin's fatherDmitry is a key shareholder, as the title sponsor for the team. Uralkali's sponsorship resulted in a livery containing the colors of theRussian flag. Steiner denied this was to circumvent aWorld Anti-Doping Agency ban on the use of the Russian flag and anthem following astate-sponsored doping scandal in the country.[9][54][55]
During thefirst race, Mazepin spun out on the first lap, while Schumacher finished 16th in his debut, the last of all running cars. In the season's final race, Mazepin tested positive forcoronavirus and was ruled out of the race. Haas would only field one driver, rather than replace Mazepin with reserve driverPietro Fittipaldi, as he had not fulfilled the requirement of having competed in a practice session for the team. Haas finished 10th in the Constructor's Championship scoring 0 points over the season, the team's worst finish since their founding in 2016 and their lowest ever points total.
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Following theRussian invasion of Ukraine, Haas removed the branding of Russian sponsor Uralkali from its cars and the colors of the Russian flag. On March 5, the team announced it had terminated its title sponsorship deal with Uralkali and its driver contract with Mazepin.[10] Kevin Magnussen, who previously drove for the team from 2017 to 2020, was announced as his replacement.[56]
Haas's decision to focus on building the VF-22 throughout the 2021 season resulted in the car proving to be competitive among the mid-field teams. With Magnussen returning, Haas scored in the first two races of the season, with Magnussen finishing in 5th and 9th-place at theBahrain andSaudi Arabian Grand Prix. Schumacher failed to score points in Bahrain and did not start in Saudi Arabia due to a crash in qualifying. The following races saw both Magnussen and Schumacher fail to score points and even finish the race as despite their high starting position after qualifying.
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After a points drought, Haas took a double points finish at the2022 British Grand Prix with Magnussen finishing 10th and Schumacher 8th; his first-ever point finish as a Formula One driver and the first double-point finish for Haas after three years. The momentum was maintained by Magnussen finishing 8th and Schumacher finishing 6th in the following race inAustrian Grand Prix. The team also took their maiden pole position at the2022 São Paulo Grand Prix, with Magnussen out-qualifying the field in changing conditions to start on pole. Magnussen later retired after a collision with McLaren'sDaniel Ricciardo at the start of the race.
The team's two back-to-back double points finishes placed Haas eighth in the Constructors' Championship.Mick Schumacher departed from Haas at the end of the season.[57]
Haas signed a title sponsorship deal withMoneyGram for the 2023 season onwards.[58]
Nico Hülkenberg's Formula One return was announced prior to the2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, partnering Magnussen for the 2023 season.[59] Early 2023, Haas also announced thatPietro Fittipaldi remained as the team's official test and reserve driver for 2023 for a fifth consecutive season, participating in the development of the VF-23.[60]
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At theCanadian Grand Prix, Hülkenberg achieved what would've been the team's best qualifying position of the season when he set the second fastest time during a wet qualifying session. AfterMcLaren'sOscar Piastri crashed earlier in the session, bringing out the red flag, the rest of the grid were not able to improve on their qualifying times as the rain got heavier. However, Hülkenberg was handed a three-place grid penalty for a red flag infraction and would start the race in fifth position. Magnussen would start the race in 14th position.[61][62]
Haas finished the season 10th in the Constructor's Championship with 12 points. While the team scored numerous top 10 qualifying positions, theVF-23's high tyre wear meant its drivers would slip down the order during races. The most notable example of this was Nico Hülkenberg's performance at the Canadian Grand Prix. Due to the VF-23's aggressive tyre wear, Hülkenberg had slipped down to 15th place by the chequered flag. Haas scored points just 5 times during the season with Hülkenberg's 7th-place finish at theAustralian Grand Prix being the team's best finish of the season.
In August 2023, Haas announced that its 2023 driver line-up of Hülkenberg and Magnussen would be retained for the 2024 season.[63] Team principalGuenther Steiner's contract was not renewed, with the position being filled by engineerAyao Komatsu on January 10. Technical directorSimone Resta also departed.[64]
In August 2024, it was reported, by a Swiss arbitrator, that Haas has to reimburse US$9 million to former title sponsor Uralkali for the cancelled sponsorship contract two months prior. This resulted in Dutch bailiffs and police entering the Haas paddock during theDutch Grand Prix weekend to valuate their assets for Uralkali to potentially seize, should the company did not receive payment by August 26. On August 23, Gene Haas confirmed that the team has made the payment but it was complicated by the Russian sanctions. On August 26, Uralkali confirmed the receipt of the payment and Haas was allowed to leave for theItalian Grand Prix.[65][66][67]
Magnussen received two penalty points for causing a collision at the Italian Grand Prix, taking his total to twelve points in twelve months and triggering a one race ban. Reserve driverOliver Bearman replaced him for theAzerbaijan Grand Prix.[68]
On October 11, Haas andToyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) signed a technical partnership, where TGR would provide design, technical and manufacturing services in exchange for Haas' technical expertise and commercial benefits.[69]
Haas finished the season in seventh place, after double-podium forAlpine dropped them down from sixth. The team scored 58 points, the most they had scored since 2018.
Hülkenberg and Magnussen departed the team after the 2024 season; the former re-joinedKick Sauber and was replaced byFormula 2 graduate and former reserve driverOliver Bearman, the first time that Haas has taken on a rookie driver since the pairing of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher in 2021.[70][71][72] The latter was replaced byEsteban Ocon, who departedAlpine after five seasons withTeam Enstone.[73]
The season's opening race inMelbourne was an unwelcome surprise for Haas.[74] In qualifying, Ocon was last of the classified drivers in P19 with teammate Bearman not being classified due to gearbox issues. In the race, despite rain and chaotic conditions, both drivers were again at the back of the pack finishing P13 and P14 as the last of the classified drivers.
At the second race inChina, both drivers were able to score points with Ocon and Bearman crossing the line in P7 and P10 respectively.[75] This marked the first points of the season for the team, the first points for Ocon with Haas and with a Ferrari power unit, and the first double points finish for Haas since Mexico. After the race,Scuderia Ferrari'sLewis Hamilton andCharles Leclerc, as well as Alpine'sPierre Gasly were disqualified. This promoted Ocon and Bearman to P5 and P8 respectively.[75]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Other points position |
| Blue | Other classified position |
| Not classified, finished (NC) | |
| Purple | Not classified, retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| Race cancelled (C) | |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Excluded (EX) | |
| Did not arrive (DNA) | |
| Withdrawn (WD) | |
| Did not enter (empty cell) | |
| Annotation | Meaning |
| P | Pole position |
| F | Fastest lap |
| Superscript number | Points-scoring position insprint |
| Year | Name | Car | Engine | Tyres | No. | Drivers | Points | WCC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |  Haas F1 Esports Team | VF-18 | Ferrari 062 EVO 1.6V6t | P | 98. 69. 63. |  Martin Stefanko Michal Smidl Tom Parker | 27 | 8th |
| 2019 | Haas F1 Team Esports | VF-19 | Ferrari 064 1.6V6t | P | 38. N.A. 98. |  Floris Wijers Jan Fehler Martin Stefanko | 8 | 10th |
| 2020 | Haas F1 Esports | VF-20 | Ferrari 065 1.6V6t | P | 38. 2. 30. | Simon Weiganf Cedric Thomé Floris Weijers | 39 | 9th |
| 2021 | Uralkali Haas F1 Esports Team | VF-21 | Ferrari065/6 1.6V6t | P | 2. 48. N.A. | Cedric Thomé Matthijs van Erven Samuel Libeert | 10 | 10th |
| 2022 | Haas F1 Team Esports | VF-22 | Ferrari 066/7 1.6V6t | P | 48. 39. 84. | Matthijs van Erven Thomas Ronhaar Piotr Stachulec | 177 | 3rd |
| 2023-24 | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team Esports | VF-23 | Ferrari 066/10 1.6V6t | P | 95. 41. 37. |  Ulaş Özyıldrım Alfie Butcher Bence Szabó-Kónyi | 116 | 5th |
| 2025 | MoneyGram Haas F1 Sim Racing Team | VF-24 | Ferrari 066/10 1.6V6t | P | 36. 34. 79. | Joris Croezen Tamás Gál Shanaka Clay | 3 | 10th |
| Source:[78] | ||||||||
| Year | Chassis | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Points | WCC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Haas VF-18 | AUS | CHN | AZE | FRA | GBR | BEL | GER | SIN | USA | ABU | 27 | 8th | |||
| Martin Stefanko | 12 | 10 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 7 | ||||||
| Michal Smidl | 14 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 12 | |||||||||
| Tom Parker | 18 | 16 | 17 | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Haas VF-19 | BHR | CHN | AZE | CAN | RBR | GBR | GER | BEL | ITA | JPN | USA | BRA | 8 | 10th | |
| Floris Wijers | 9 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 16 | 16 | ||||
| Jan Fehler | 20 | 17 | Ret | 15 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 14 | |||||
| Martin Stefanko | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Haas VF-20 | BHR | VIE | CHN | NED | CAN | RBR | GBR | BEL | ITA | JPN | MEX | BRA | 39 | 9th | |
| Simon Weigang | 18 | 16 | 14 | 17 | Ret | 6 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 12 | ||||
| Cedric Thomé | 17 | 18 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 10 | |||||
| Floris Wijers | 14 | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Haas VF-21 | BHR | CHN | RBR | GBR | ITA | BEL | POR | NED | USA | EMI | MEX | BRA | 10 | 10th | |
| Cedric Thomé | 16 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 9 | ||||
| Matthijs van Erven | 15 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 20 | 6 | ||||
| Samuel Libeert | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Haas VF-22 | BHR | EMI | GBR | RBR | BEL | NED | ITA | MEX | USA | JPN | BRA | UAE | 177 | 3rd | |
| Matthijs van Erven | 6 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Thomas Ronhaar | Ret | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Piotr Strachulec | 17 | 11 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 9 | Ret | 18 | ||||||||
| 2023–24 | Haas VF-23 | BHR | JED | RBR | GBR | BEL | NED | USA | MEX | BRA | LVG | QAT | UAE | 116 | 5th | |
| Ulaş Özyıldrım | 14 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 17 | ||||
| Alfie Butcher | 9 | Ret | 1 | 18 | Ret | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Bence Szabó-Kónyi | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Haas VF-24 | AUS | CHN | BHR | SAU | GBR | BEL | NED | USA | MXC | SAP | QAT | ABU | 3 | 10th | |
| Joris Croezen | 12 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 13 | |||||||
| Tamás Gál | 14 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 14 | ||||
| Shanaka Clay | 19 | 9 | 17 |
Since the team's foundation, multiple drivers have been affiliated with Haas. These include:
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