Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has opened up on the limitations the team is facing as it seeks to make the next step in F1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The American squad joined the F1 field at the start of the 2016 season and has experienced various highs and lows on its journey thus far.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Its highest finish in the constructors’ championship came in 2018 when it ended the year in fifth place, well clear of its midfield rivals.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
During that time, it has operated as the smallest team in terms of personnel, with its numbers well down compared to the likes of Mercedes and Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As a result, the process to install improvements to its car take a longer period of time.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAs always, we have to really prioritise a lot, and then the progress is slow because of resources, because of the toolset and the environment we’ve got,\u201d Komatsu told select media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cTo manufacturing as well, from the moment we find the solution, whether in a design office or internally, to be able to bring the solution to the truck, it takes longer.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s not just one thing. If you look at every single part of our business, there are lots of things that need to improve to really give them a better fighting chance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reaction has been great, but from that reaction to be able to put solutions in place, it takes longer for us than some other teams.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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What it all boils down to, Komatsu acknowledged, is money.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s mainly financial,\u201d he said. \u201cIn terms of structure, I don’t see a big problem.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it can be better, but there are many more things [to do] before we have to change any structure that we can put in place with a slightly better revenue, to be able to give people more resources, better software, better tools, the ability to improve the process, procedure, etc.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything takes time and human being resources, to do that, it’s revenue.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s what we’re working on. Moving forward, if you look at this month and last month, we announced three new partners.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo slowly and surely, we are getting the right partners on board. It’s not just about money, it’s about the collaboration.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo slowly but surely we’re getting those partners on board to improve the team together. But we just need to keep going with that to be able to make a change.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Haas currently sit seventh in the drivers’ championship on 27 points but has gone through a tough stretch with five consecutive non-point-scoring finishes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As it seeks to add performance to the car, Komatsu stated the situation is made more complex by the challenge of one person trying to carry out multiple roles.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it’s not just about numbers, but the number of people [at the team], we are really up against it. One person is playing multiple different roles,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means beyond a certain point, it becomes inefficient as well. Smaller normally means efficient, but beyond a certain point, it’s actually becoming inefficient.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I would definitely recruit and reinforce certain departments to give them more just more resources.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has opened up on the limitations the team is facing as it seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850579,"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":["post-850578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850578","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=850578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}