How strategy played into Haas' successful Bahrain weekend

A year ago Haas driver Oliver Bearman drove his first Formula 1 race in the Ferrari. Now he returns as a regular driver. He has a special wish for his second F1 race in Jeddah.

Haas F1 quickly corrected the shot after a disastrous Australian Grand Prix, so that the American team now ranks fifth in the manufacturer's championship. Ayao Komatsu, its director, is pleased to have been able to return a situation which, the space of a weekend, seemed really catastrophic. "It's Formula 1 and a lot of things change in a very short time, we all know it. That's why in Melbourne, every day we talked to the guys in Italy and the (…

Komatsu encouraged by rapid Haas recovery since first race

Team principal Ayao Komatsu is delighted by the turnaround Haas has made since the season-opening race in Australia, after his team moved up to fifth in the constructors’ championship after four rounds. Haas discovered a significant weakness with its car in Melbourne, as it struggled with porpoising — or bouncing — in high-speed corners due to the design of its 2025 floor. Although the smoother surface in China allowed for a far more competitive…

Haas reacts to P5 in the Constructors’ Championship

Two drivers who can deliver: How Haas is thriving in P5 after a tumultuous start to the season - At the start of the 2025 Formula One season, few would have expected Haas to emerge as a serious contender for the title of best of the rest. But just a few races into the season,…

While the Japanese Grand Prix of the previous week in Suzuka was, to a large extent, a duller race, Bahrain’s high degradation offered a better show, and with it more opportunities for the teams in the middle area to make something remarkable. And less bad for Haas, because they started with the left foot, with an accident by Esteban Ocon at the Q2 that prevented him from leaving higher than the 14th place. His partner, the ‘rookie’ Oliver Bearm…

Esteban Ocon has, decidedly, great resources. Because, after a crash in Q2 while a top ten stretched his arms to Haas F1, get up, go back to the fight to finally go back to eighth place, it was necessary to do it! The proof, also, of a sacred strength of character! Six places won, therefore, to the [...] Article F1 Back to this sequence of collective joy for Ocon, P8 after his crash! appeared first on Le Mag Sport Auto.