Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has asserted the squad will only be truly happy if it progresses to a position in which it can win races.<\/p>\n
The American outfit is entering its 11th F1 campaign this year but will no longer hold the label of the youngest team with Cadillac joining the grid.<\/p>\n
Haas is yet to score a top-three result in F1, with its greatest success being an unexpected pole position with Kevin Magnussen in 2021.<\/p>\n
Last year, it successfully developed its car during the year after a difficult start and scored a strong batch of points in the final rounds.<\/p>\n
When asked if he is happy with the team’s growth, Komatsu told media including RacingNews365: \u201cI don’t think we will ever be happy until we have a car that is winning races.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I’m happy in a way that [2024], we managed to develop the car throughout the season. We finished the season with the fifth-quickest car.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then [in 2025] in Melbourne, we had a huge disaster. We are like last by country mile. We were six-tenths off P19.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo come from that, to be able to fight at the front of the midfield, we proved it again that we can develop the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Haas is far from a position to win races, Komatsu insisted he is proud of the team spirit as it still operates with the fewest staff members.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that sense, I’m extremely happy how the people are putting it together, supporting each other, putting this performance on the car,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially considering we are still by far the smallest team. Not even half, more like a third.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job now is really to create a better environment for those people, so that they can do a better job, which I’m sure they can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has asserted the squad will only be truly happy if it progresses to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-400707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}