Haas targeting points in first season

The Haas VF-16 was officially unveiled online today, after a brief on-track outing in a filming session at Barcelona on Saturday.

As expected the car has a predominantly grey and red livery, while its type number is derived from the VF-1, the first machine made by Haas in 1988, with V being an industry standard for a vertical mill.

“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 team boss Guenther Steiner. “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.

“We have very experienced designers who worked hard to develop all the little things from an aerodynamic perspective that, collectively, add up to a lot. And our technical partner, Ferrari, provided our power unit, and that really defined the rear end of the car and how big it needed to be.

“Our goal with this car is to score points First, we need to go out there and show that we can do the job, 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.”