After a few days ago McLaren presented the decoration of his car for Formula 1this time it was the turn of haas. The American team, which will repeat the pairing of drivers in Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg behind the wheel of a VF-24 where the prominence of black rises to white in a livery similar to last year. This detail is key, as it can allow the assembly to save weight on the paint on those black areas.
As is customary with the American team, the car revealed this Friday will not be definitive in terms of aerodynamics. Just in terms of colors and decorations. Next February 11, the real car of 2024 will debut on the track on its day of ‘shakedown‘before the three days of official preseason tests to be held Bahrain of February 21 to 23.
This day of filming will be ideal so that the drivers can start to acclimatize to the car and feel their first kilometers in it to prepare for the test and confirm that everything is going according to plan.
“I look forward to seeing VF-24 up and running, a sentiment I share with our partners and the entire team,” said Gene Haas, President of the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team.
“In Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen, we also know that we have an excellent driver duo behind the wheel, their experience will again be very important as we build our program throughout the year. We took advantage of the winter to put in the necessary process in order to be better and, ultimately, improve our overall performance. We will soon see how we are doing,” added the owner of a team that will no longer lead the legendary Team Principal Güther Steiner, a character who became a real mass. idol. thanks to his leading role in the F1 series on Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’.
“As everyone knows, when we implemented the in-car update last year at Austin 2023, that was the concept for this year’s car, but because we had the physical limitations of the side impact structure, the duct layout of the radars and the cooling arrangement. , we couldn’t do the whole VF-24 type concept. I knew exactly where we were going this year, but everyone saw a preview in Austin,” recalled Ayao Komatsu, new Haas Team Principal.
Source: La Verdad
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