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<\/p>\nHaas will bring what team principal Ayao Komatsu describes as “small updates” to the United States Grand Prix this weekend, but the fine margins in the midfield could increase their impact.<\/p>\n
The majority of teams switched full focus onto their 2026 cars to such an extent that there have been very few upgrades introduced since the summer break. However, Haas will have some new parts in Austin this weekend, and Komatsu believes the team is strong enough to compete for a double-points finish at its home race.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly I don’t know, but we look at the problems in front of us, and\u00a0I don’t see why we cannot be competitive,\u201d Komatsu told SiriusXM. \u201cBut it’s just such fine margins all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you get the tire compounds to work, or the car balance, or the downforce level right \u2013 every little detail we need to get right. So I think if we get everything right,\u00a0I’m sure we can fight to have both cars in the points.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe will bring small updates, but\u00a0I’m not really counting on that. That’s not something massive. But again the margins are so small. We lost P8 in qualifying [in Singapore] to [Isack] Hadjar by four hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for example even if we say the upgrade is only four hundredths of a second, that helps. But you have just got to focus and then try to get everything out of the car, and everything out of both drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haas will also run a special livery at COTA (above and main image), but it\u2019s the new parts \u2013 which can only be evaluated in FP1 due to the nature of the Sprint weekend \u2013 that are exciting rookie Ollie Bearman.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like we\u2019re building momentum each weekend, we know the car is fast, and with another update coming to the VF-25 in Austin I feel like this should be a strong weekend,\u201d Bearman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be my first US Grand Prix as a MoneyGram Haas F1 Team driver, so I know it\u2019s going to be full on, but it\u2019s so nice to soak in the atmosphere and passion from all the American fans. Sharing a mutual passion and love for this team and sport, COTA will be a highlight of this season, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haas will bring what team principal Ayao Komatsu describes as “small updates” to the United States Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-211449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}