Haas gamble on fast-tracked F1 update could be ‘catastrophic’
Haas feel they have no option but to "risk" debuting a ღrevised floor at tꩲhe F1 Japanese Grand Prix.
Haas are taking a “risk” by introducing a floor update to their 2025 F1 car at the Japanese Grand Prix.
The upgra🐭de has been fast-tracked in a bid to try and solve an aero oscillation issue that has dogged 🅠the VF-25 in high-speed corners, which predominately make up the Suzuka Circuit.
Haas endurꦬed a woeful weekend at the season-opener around Melbourne’s Albert Park, with the team’s car particularly struggling through the hi𒊎gh-speed Turn 9-10.
A better weekend followed at the Chinese Grand Prix, where Haas ended up with both cars in the points as168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Esteban Ocon finished fifth and F1 rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oliver Bearman came home eighth, with their positions boosted by Ferrari’s double d🏅isqualification.
But Haas felt they had no option to bring forward their planned floor upgrade to Japan, knowing it is a ꩲtrack which could heavily expose the VF-25’s current weaknes♛s.
While it is only a small revision, Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu🍷 has acknowledged it could have major ramifications to how the American squad’s weekend goes.
"I can't say for sure exactly how much difference it's going to make, becaus💦e in order to get the parts here ✤we had to really shortcut the process,” he said.
”It is a risk. It’s a judgment call. But to me we had no option. The scale of the issue in Melbourne was huge. We were the slowest car by cou🐼ntry a mile𝓡. So we had to do it.
"Honestly, we just relied on our aero guys and designers' understanding to make ce💙rtain modifications. So certain things are geometrically different and aerodynamically different as well.
♉"We j𓃲ust put everyone's latest understanding, without any proof, because we had to design it, we had to release it, we had to make it - otherwise we weren't going to make it here.
"So, we had to do it. But then, respectively we put it in the👍 windtunnel, to see if that idea is acꦛtually correct or not.
"It is correct. It's definitely the💯 righ⛄t direction. But I just don't know how much difference it's going to make.”
Komatsu continued: "It's all s🌟mall differences. But it can lead into poss♛ibly something catastrophic, or not.
"It's quite nerve-racking. But that's the honest ♕feeling.
"As soon as we do a lap, as soon as we go through sector one, we will know if it's going to be like Melbourne or n🅠ot.”
Haas are sixth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 constructors’ championship thanks to their 14-point haul from China.
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