{"id":934755,"date":"2026-10-16T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:20:10","slug":"haas-confirms-rafael-camara-for-2027-formula-1-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934755\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas confirms Rafael Camara for 2027 Formula 1 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haas has confirmed Rafael Camara as one of its Formula 1 drivers for 2027, signing the 21-year-old Brazilian to a multi-year agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement turns a selection first reported last month into a completed deal and gives Camara the seat currently occupied by Esteban Ocon.<\/p>\n<p>Camara has followed a rapid route through the junior categories since joining the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2022. He won the Formula Regional European Championship in 2024 and the Formula 3 title the following year, and now leads the 2026 Formula 2 championship by seven points.<\/p>\n<p>His first Formula 2 season has so far produced three Feature Race victories and four further podium finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Haas evaluated Camara in an August test at Portimao, where he drove the team&#8217;s 2025 car as part of its Testing of Previous Cars program. The team also assessed other candidates before settling on the Ferrari-supported driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m very happy to be joining TGR Haas F1 Team as a Formula 1 driver,\u201d Camara said. \u201cIt&#8217;s an important step in my career and I want to thank Gene Haas and Ayao Komatsu for the trust they have placed in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Camara&#8217;s promotion continues a remarkably efficient ascent: three championships in four seasons would be useful preparation for Formula 1, although the final Formula 2 title remains the next job on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haas has confirmed Rafael Camara as one of its Formula 1 drivers for 2027, signing the 21-year-old Brazilian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-934755","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\/934755","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=934755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}