Haas F1 Team

as of 2023 European GP

The Haas F1 Team is an American main series team which is competing in the main series since the 2015 season.

## History

### 2015

Haas made their debut in 2015 even though their real life debut was in 2016 because the Caterham team folded after 2014, meaning Haas could join. They had as their drivers a full Pole Lineup: Kiroshima di Rossa and Bartosz Klos. They also called Russian Driver Maxim Titkov as their test driver. Their first season was to be a tough one, with a string of finishing outside the points or retiring. Their first points came with Di Rossa in Spain and yet again in Monaco. However, their next points would come 4 Rounds after in Germany where Klos scored his first points with 10th. However, the team was really unlucky and in 9 Rounds after Klos's first points, Di Rossa retired 4 Times and Klos retired with a whopping 7 Times. However, in the final race in Brazil, Klos took the car home 9th to score the team's last 2015 Points. However, even after some great drives from both Di Rossa and Klos, the team was unable to avoid getting last place after they lost the battle against Marussia by 4 Points. The team placed 11th and last on the WCS with 11 Points. In the WDC, Di Rossa placed 19th with 8 points and Klos placed 22nd and last with only 3 Points.

### 2016

In 2016, Haas saw a massive improvement on their lineup. They released both Di Rossa and Klos, with Klos moving to Sauber and Di Rossa having to move to Formula E. They called Irishman Evan Byrne coming from Sauber and Gabriel Gomes, who finally got a Top Tier seat after several years. They also called talented Serbian Snezana Radivojević as their test driver (After Japan, she retired and the test driver role went to Maxim Titkov). However, the season had a disastrous beginning as both cars retired. But the good news is that Byrne scored the team's first points in the second race in Bahrain with 6th Place. While Byrne was on the clouds scoring several points, Gomes was struggling in the american car, with his first points coming only on the 8th Round in Azerbaijan (European GP) with a 9th. However, that was the team's first points since Byrne scored a 7th in Round 4 in Russia. On the second half of the season, things got a lot better in Haas as Gomes and Byrne were both scoring constant points. However, in Malaysia, the unexpected happened. In a stellar race, Gomes placed 3rd, scoring Haas's first podium, which gave Haas a push on the championship as they as overtook Toro Rosso for 7th Place in the World Constructors Championship. Several impressive results which saw Gomes and Byrne miss on more podiums include a 4th Place for Byrne in Mexico and Gomes with a 5th Place in Austin. However, the last 2 races saw a pretty rough ending to the season as both drivers retired in Abu Dhabi and they both failed to score in Brazil. But 2016 was a massive improvement for the team as they rose from 11th to 7th including a podium. They finished the WCC in 7th with an impressive 88 Points with Gomes surprisingly scoring more than Byrne even though he struggled in the first half of the championship. The Brazilian scored 45 points and placed 13th while Byrne scored 43 Points and placed 14th.

### 2017

In their third season, Haas has called Swiss Rookie Joel Hutter and returning Brit George Roke. They called British driver Jarrad Fosbury as their test driver.