Magnussen Confirmed At Haas For 2017

MAGNUSSEN JOINS HAAS FOR 2017 SEASON

    Danish driver, Kevin Magnussen has been confirmed at American team, Haas for next season, alongside French Driver, Romain Grosjean. The news came only a day after Esteban Gutierrez announced his departure from the Ferrari-powered team.

    Kevin Magnussen spent his first season in F1 at McLaren, after winning the 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Championship with team DAMS. Magnussen's contract with McLaren as one of their drivers was not renewed in 2015 and he spent the season as a reserve/test driver instead. He was then released from his McLaren contract altogether before signing with Renault for the current 2016 season. 

    Magnussen has gathered a total of 7 points for Renault this season and currently stands 16th in the Drivers Championship.

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Haas Launch 2016 Car

The first American team to run in Formula One in 30 years has broken cover with the big reveal of it’s first racecar on social media.

Haas F1’s VF-16 car shares it’s livery colours with those of Haas’ cars in other series, but there’s no doubt where the machine will be racing.

Following in the style of Formula One, the VF-16 will, according to Haas, showcase the company’s “commitment to technology and innovation”.

“Just as Haas Automation’s products continually evolve, becoming better and more efficient, our methodology behind the VF-16 was to make it the best evolution of a good F1 car,” said Guenther Steiner, Team Principal. “We’re a new team so we looked at what the successful teams were doing to give us a baseline of the direction we needed to go with our design.”

The rear end of the car was dictated by the power unit, which will be provided to Haas by their technical partner, Ferrari.

The goal in Haas’ maiden year will be to finish races and score points.

“We need to go out there and show that we can do the job,” said Steiner. “That we can finish races, that we are respected by the fans and other teams in the paddock. Then we want to score points. That is the ultimate goal.”

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Haas F1 - America's new F1 Team

 

 

Formula 1 currently has 11 teams competing in the Championship, but in 2012, there was a total of 12 teams. HRT-Cosworth was a back-marker team, who was unable to fund a 2013 entry. There was a lot of speculation that in 2014, we would be back to a total of 12 teams. Of course, they were only rumours.

 

But, earlier this year, the FIA allowed people to submit applications for future teams. A man named Gene Haas was granted a special license to start a US entry. Gene, 61, currently co-owns a Nascar team & also owns Haas Automation. While he doesn't plan on finalizing the team and debuting it until 2016, people have already begun guessing a handful of names that might make the future Haas F1 line-up.

 

Oringally, Gene planned on calling the team "Haas Formula", but recently changed it to "Haas F1" - The reason being, everyone will recognize it more if it's "F1" instead of "Formula". Gene plans on the base being located in North Carolina, and he's already confirmed they will be using Ferrari engines.

 

Driver suggestions have inlcuded names such as: Alexander Rossi, Susie Wolff and Danica Patrick. 

 

More info on the team will be coming throughout the year, so check back soon!

 

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