2026 Haas F1 Team

[jaysvw]

Team: TGR Haas F1 Team
Base: Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States (Main) & Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Euro)

Team Principal: Ayao Komatsu
Technical director: Andrea de Zordo

Race drivers:
Esteban Ocon 31
Oliver Bearman 87

Chassis: VF-26
Engine: Ferrari V6 Turbo

This thread is to discuss the 2026 Haas F1 Team

[FW17]

Esteban Ocon will be dropped after the first half and replaced by Yuki Tsunoda.

[DJ Downforce]

Esteban Ocon will be dropped after the first half and replaced by Yuki Tsunoda.

I think that would just be replacing mid with mid. Ocon did struggle a lot against Bearman particularly on high speed tracks though, maybe the flat floors will help him?

[FW17]

[Cuky]

[monkeyboy1976]

Anyone going to tell them that they put the wheels on the wrong way round?

[FrukostScones]

Anyone going to tell them that they put the wheels on the wrong way round?

I think it is AWD.

[FW17]

Front pushrod?

Are Ferrari supplying pushrod and pull rod for its customers this year? or is it something a couple of years old?

[Luscion]

https://www.the-race.com/content/images ... 9610-1.jpg

Front pushrod?

Are Ferrari supplying pushrod and pull rod for its customers this year? or is it something a couple of years old?

Ferrari and its customers are going to have double pushrod, most teams will according to autoracer

[Holm86]

Anyone going to tell them that they put the wheels on the wrong way round?

I think it is AWD.

Maybe they didn't get the memo that front wheel MGU wasn't happening

[FW17]

https://www.the-race.com/content/images ... 9610-1.jpg

Front pushrod?

Are Ferrari supplying pushrod and pull rod for its customers this year? or is it something a couple of years old?

Ferrari and its customers are going to have double pushrod, most teams will according to autoracer

I thought Ferrari did pullrod fronts to gain experience for this year. Cadillac using the latest suspension from Ferrari, Haas using 2024 parts.

[Peter Ian Staker]

https://www.the-race.com/content/images ... 9610-1.jpg

Front pushrod?

Are Ferrari supplying pushrod and pull rod for its customers this year? or is it something a couple of years old?

Ferrari and its customers are going to have double pushrod, most teams will according to autoracer

Cadillac has pullrods at the front.

[continuum16]

https://www.the-race.com/content/images ... 9610-1.jpg

Front pushrod?

Are Ferrari supplying pushrod and pull rod for its customers this year? or is it something a couple of years old?

Ferrari and its customers are going to have double pushrod, most teams will according to autoracer

I thought Ferrari did pullrod fronts to gain experience for this year. Cadillac using the latest suspension from Ferrari, Haas using 2024 parts.

I’m not sure how Haas could use 2024 parts when the cars are a different size.

I think Cadillac has their own suspension. Yes they have the Ferrari engine and gearbox, but not the Ferrari gearbox casing and rear suspension. If they aren’t buying Ferraris rear suspension I don’t see why they’d just buy the front.

Also this haas render has a lot of things that don’t make sense so it’s just as possible Ferrari and Haas are also using pullrod anyways

[bananapeel23]

Ferrari and its customers are going to have double pushrod, most teams will according to autoracer

I thought Ferrari did pullrod fronts to gain experience for this year. Cadillac using the latest suspension from Ferrari, Haas using 2024 parts.

I’m not sure how Haas could use 2024 parts when the cars are a different size.

I think Cadillac has their own suspension. Yes they have the Ferrari engine and gearbox, but not the Ferrari gearbox casing and rear suspension. If they aren’t buying Ferraris rear suspension I don’t see why they’d just buy the front.

Also this haas render has a lot of things that don’t make sense so it’s just as possible Ferrari and Haas are also using pullrod anyways

Hopefully not. I don't think Ferrari has ever done well with a pull rod front. Not that it is actually supposed to have any performance implications. Admittedly the correlation between pull rod and bad Ferrari cars is probably more of coincidence than a real pattern.

[Peter Ian Staker]

I thought Ferrari did pullrod fronts to gain experience for this year. Cadillac using the latest suspension from Ferrari, Haas using 2024 parts.

I’m not sure how Haas could use 2024 parts when the cars are a different size.

I think Cadillac has their own suspension. Yes they have the Ferrari engine and gearbox, but not the Ferrari gearbox casing and rear suspension. If they aren’t buying Ferraris rear suspension I don’t see why they’d just buy the front.

Also this haas render has a lot of things that don’t make sense so it’s just as possible Ferrari and Haas are also using pullrod anyways

Hopefully not. I don't think Ferrari has ever done well with a pull rod front. Not that it is actually supposed to have any performance implications. Admittedly the correlation between pull rod and bad Ferrari cars is probably more of coincidence than a real pattern.

Funnily enough Ferrari’s dry spell began literally the moment pull rods came back at the front when Red Bull started using them at the rear in 2009.
Before that nearly all frontrunning cars for decades were using push rods all around.
Maybe Ferrari should push the FIA to mandate push rods all around