Alongside the incoming Esteban Ocon, Haas has got a new line-up but one which has potential. Team principal Ayao Komatsu is ...

OPINION: In every Formula 1 year, the intra-team driver battles are fascinating subplots. But the expected close scrap for ...

OPINION: In every Formula 1 year, the intra-team driver battles are fascinating subplots. But the expected close scrap for ...

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After working for almost two decades as an engineer in F1, Ayao Komatsu got his big break in 2024 when he replaced Guenther Steiner as Haas’ team principal. Given his extensive experience working in ...

For 2024 though, Steiner got moved on (boo!) with his technocrat deputy Ayao Komatsu (more boos) promoted in his place instead. However, in 2024 the Banbury-based team proved that boring works, ...

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One of the reasons the Haas partnership with Toyota was deemed as such a major step for Ayao Komatsu’s team was the ability to carry out training for potential future race team members. Due to its ...

So, we just need to get out of that dip stage and get onto the stage where we can stabilise it. But that's going to take several months. So to feel the effect on the track, it's going to take a year ...

Haas F1 team principal Ayao Komatsu, who was the chief engineer of the team at the time, discussed how Bernie Ecclestone had to once help them at one race on the Pelas Pistas podcast. Photo by Gerlach ...

Ayao Komatsu first started in F1 in 2003 with BAR (which is Mercedes today), before moving onto Renault and Lotus, rising to Romain Grosjean's race engineer and then chief race engineer. He followed ...

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