The new Haas is being shown on the track

The Haas project for F1 2023 has begun. Its new car for the 2023 F1 season, the VF23, put on its first few kilometers during the team’s shakedown at Silverstone ahead of the start of the F1 pre-season, which will be held in Bahrain from February 23 to 25. The team is the first showed off its design at the end of January, although it was done through various 3D ‘renderings’. And this time he gave videos and pictures of what the evolution of his car looks like for the first time for the second year of the current technical regulations, with a decoration with more black than last year, featured in its technical characteristics the clear differences it shows. on pontoons. , cooling on the side and rear of the engine hood compared to its predecessor.

Last year, Haas took a big step forward from 2021, from occupying the red lantern to fighting to lead the midfield in several races and having a decent weapon in the middle of the pack. This course they want to continue standing up to Alpine, Aston Martin, AlphaTauri and company and not lose steam compared to the last course with two experienced drivers like Kevin Magnussen and Niko Hülkenberg.

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This first real test by Haas also left us with some statements from the team’s technical director, Simone Resta, about his new car.

“After a difficult 2021, 2022 was really a great comeback and gave everyone working on the car a big boost, both in the factory and on the track. We’re building on that momentum this season and trying to take another step .I can say that it is probably a young group formed in late 2020 early 2021 so after a year of cooperation I think it is a good opportunity to create another car with better speed and more great collaboration as a team Simone commented.

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“The concept work on the VF-23 started almost after the first few races last season, basically as soon as we put the car on the track and started learning about it. Then we started to make our own new model with some aerodynamic development and some preliminary concept work. Week by week, month by month, there was a progressive increase in resources, a progressive shift from one project to another, to the point that when you closed, most of the resources were in the new car,” he added about the car’s creation process.

“It is always very difficult to predict what will happen in a new season in terms of competitiveness and ranking from the first to the last car on the grid. Due to the great stability in terms of regulation and taking into account last year’s result, I think we will see how the gap between teams is closed, but let’s see”, he added about the possibility that the central zone is more on this course.

This year’s regulations are undergoing a variation to increase pilot safety due to the high rebound suffered by single-seaters last year. Therefore, the car this year was raised 15 mm more. Resta also talked about it.

“In the middle of last year, the FIA ​​decided to start a program to improve the safety of the cars with some actions in the short and medium term. The short-term actions have already been shown while the long-term actions will be realized in the new car . As mentioned, the floor will be changed and this is the biggest change to the car in terms of regulation. It is aimed at improving the porpoising and I think it will cost everyone a little performance, but at the beginning of last year everything was learned so much that I think everyone is in a better place in terms of this new car phenomenon.” out about it.