The American team’s much improved form in F1 2024 goes back to a distinct change of tact in pre-season testing
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu says convincing Nico Hulkenberg to buy into a different approach to winter testing is behind their much-improved results in the 2024 Formula 1 season. The American squad, which came last in 2023, is currently engaged in a close fight with RB for sixth place in the constructors’ championship, as three points separate them with the final six races of the campaign looming. Hulkenberg has scored 54.2% of Haas’s 31 points so far – compared to 66.
” Komatsu is referring to how Haas completed 15 long-run stints across the opening two days of Bahrain pre-season testing – with no time spent on the soft tyres conducting performance running – before both Magnussen and Hulkenberg did a full race simulation on the final day. “We had to do that race practice – tyre management – in pre-season testing,” Komatsu says – explaining that Haas’s plan was to do this to get a full understanding on its tyre wear over longer stints.
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