Haas F1 Group was the primary System 1 crew to unveil their livery for the upcoming 2023 F1 season, sharing their imaginative and prescient for hte 12 months forward with the world final week.
Now they’re one of many first groups to take their automobile to the monitor forward of preseason testing on the finish of the month. Haas introduced their automobile for the 2023 F1 season to the legendary Silverstone monitor, website of the British Grand Prix:
Along with giving the VF23 a Silverstone shakedown, Haas Technical Director Simone Resta shared his ideas on the event of the VF23 and Haas’ expectations for the season forward with the media, together with SB Nation. Haas completed eighth within the Constructors’ Championship final season, their greatest end since putting sixth throughout the 2018 marketing campaign. For Resta, it was good step ahead, which opens up new sources for the crew:
“Ending eighth within the 2022 Constructors’ Championship has been a really constructive outcome for the crew. After all, we purpose to all the time do higher and end higher, however I believe it was an excellent step ahead and it will inevitably give some further useful resource to the crew. We’re all the time attempting to maximise the amount of cash we will make investments to maneuver ahead and make one other step. That has been one of many goals with this new mission to have the ability to have a stronger in-season improvement program.”
Resta additionally outlined the variations between the VF23, and final 12 months’s mannequin, the VF22:
“We’re taking a look at all essential areas of intervention from 2022 to 2023. We attempt to save a number of of the elements on final season’s automobile however attempt to enhance the aerodynamic efficiency of the automobile, enhance the burden of the element and enhance the standard of the element. There was a large rework of the automobile – a number of the elements don’t look radically completely different – it’s in all probability extra a improvement of the 2022 automobile however there’s a full rework of the automobile involving many, many elements.”
One of many largest adjustments for Haas this season is their driver lineup. Kevin Magnussen — who scored the crew’s first-ever pole place at Interlagos on the finish of final season — is again, joined by Nico Hülkenberg. Magnussen and Hülkenberg had a moderately colourful dustup a number of seasons in the past which was featured in an early episode of the Netflix sequence Drive to Survive, and Hülkenberg poked enjoyable at that incident on social media earlier than the shakedown at Silverstone:
Final 12 months’s pole has Resta, together with the remainder of the crew, aiming increased in 2023. “Final 12 months’s pole place introduced nice pleasure to everybody within the crew – it was the primary for Haas. For me, our goal is all the time to maximise our efficiency in each situation, on each monitor, with each drivers. How that can materialize right into a remaining outcome, I’m undecided. It will be nice to see a podium or a race win, we all the time need to purpose excessive and let’s see what we will get in 2023.”
