@HaasF1Team first to reveal 2020 challenger, the VF-20. #F1

Haas F1 Team wasted no time overnight in revealing it’s design and livery of it’s 2020 contender, the VF-20 for the 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship season.

The unveiling across the team’s social media platforms showed a variety of different digital renderings of their VF-20 racer, set to be driven by Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, complete in it’s return to traditional Haas Automation based colours of gray, red and black.

Haas Automation’s significant presence on the VF-20 is maintained, with the Global CNC maching tool company founded by Team Owner Gene Haas strikingly displayed on the sidepods, engine cover, front wing endplates and rear wing. The theme that’s continued since the team’s debut in the 2016 campaign with it’s VF-16.

Team sponsors JACK & JONES, PEAK, BlueDEF, Richard Mille, Alpinestars, Windshear and Pirelli all continue to feature their branding on the VF-20 whilst MindMaze and Nominet will be on a variety of key team assets throughout the record-breaking 22 race season in the American squad’s track operations.

The VF-20 will make it’s debut on Wednesday February 19 at the Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain on the opening day of Formula 1’s pre-season testing.

Grosjean and Magnussen will unveil the VF-20 at 8am outside the team’s garage.

Magnussen will test his new office on the opening day of testing with team-mate Grosjean running the full second day and both will split the third and final day concluding the first week.

“I’m pleased to see the car return to the more familiar Haas Automation colors, it’s certainly a livery that people identify with,” explained Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation and chairman of Haas F1 Team. “Frankly, I’m hoping the VF-20 will return us to the kind of form we ran in 2018 when we finished fifth in the constructors’ championship.”

 

“2019 was a tough season to endure. We’ve been through a real education process, one that comes to all Formula One teams at some stage. I’m trusting we’ve learned from those lessons and have applied that knowledge into making the VF-20 a more competitive entry. It’s important to me that we’re back in the mix and consistently scoring points, we certainly have the capability and we’ve proved as an organization we can do it.” Haas concluded. Quote credit to Haas F1 Team.com for Haas’s statement.

Haas F1 Team endured it’s worst season in 2019 finishing 9th in the World Constructors Championship with 28 points after the American outfit’s best campaign in 2018 finishing fifth on 93 points.

Team Principal Guenther Steiner said:

“It’s always exciting to see the development of a new Formula One car and undoubtedly the VF-20 has to deliver where our previous car didn’t. With the regulations remaining stable into this season, it’s allowed us to improve our understanding of the car and to scrutinize ourselves more in order to find solutions and applications to channel into the design of the VF-20.

 

Last year was definitely a set-back, one I would never have asked for, but you learn from such situations – we all have. Everybody at the team was forced to look at themselves and understand what they can do better. I’m looking forward to seeing the VF-20 make its track debut. As always in testing, you want many things, but lots of mileage, reliability and speed would be welcomed as we ready ourselves for the first race in Australia.” Credit to Haas F1 Team for Steiner’s quote.

Pre-season testing at Spain’s Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya runs from February 19-21 and again February 26-28. The 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship begins with the season-opening Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2020 at the picturesque Albert Park Street Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria from March 13-15.

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