Haas has turn out to be the primary Components One crew to launch photographs of its 2022 automobile forward of the upcoming season.

Constructed to the game’s new technical laws, the Haas VF22 is a dramatic departure from final yr’s automobile with all new design ideas mandated by F1 and the FIA to enhance wheel-to-wheel racing.

The brand new Haas resembles the idea automobile launched by F1 final yr, however has refined variations across the nostril, sidepods and ground space, that are more likely to be areas of differentiation throughout all automobiles this yr.

Nonetheless, the pictures launched by Haas have been solely laptop renderings of the VF22, with extra element and design components more likely to observe when the precise automobile hits the monitor later this month.

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Haas decided final season to commit all of its assets to its 2022 automobile, foregoing any significant improvement of its 2021 automobile.

Group principal Guenther Steiner hopes the choice will lead to a return to the factors this season after Haas completed in final place with zero factors in 2021.

“It is that point of yr the place you are naturally optimistic that the laborious work and energy of everybody will translate to a aggressive entry on monitor,” Steiner mentioned.

“We made the choice again in 2020 to essentially channel time and assets into the VF-22, foregoing something track-related for 2021 — which wasn’t simple to look at. Hopefully that call bears fruit and we return to difficult for factors and taking one thing from the weekends.”

The automobile is powered by a Ferrari engine and continues to attract different parts, together with the gearbox and suspension, from the Italian crew.

It’s also the primary Haas to be designed by the crew’s new Maranello design division, which was arrange final yr to concentrate on the 2022 design and work extra intently with Ferrari.

The design was led by former Ferrari engineer Simone Resta, who joined Haas final yr as technical director.

“That is most likely probably the most complicated challenge the Uralkali Haas F1 Group has handled to-date for a lot of causes,” Resta mentioned. “It is a utterly new set of laws and this season we have introduced in a brand new crew to handle the creation of the VF-22.

“Not everyone seems to be new however a very good chunk of individuals have joined with a revised construction now in place. I contemplate this as a terrific success within the course of. We’re nonetheless early within the challenge and going by means of a transitional season of working collectively on a automobile for a full yr, but when we glance again the place we began, this crew is already a hit.”

The Haas VF22 is because of hit the monitor on the first take a look at of the brand new season on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain from February 23 to 25.