Haas F1 reiterates team is not for sale after aligning with Toyota on technical partnership

The first-year squad main of Haas reiterated nan Formula 1 squad is not for waste moreover if caller method partner Toyota tried to bargain nan organization

MEXICO CITY -- The first-year squad main of Haas reiterated nan Formula 1 squad is not for waste moreover if caller method partner Toyota wanted to bargain nan organization.

Ayao Komatsu dismissed nan thought Friday astatine nan Mexico City Grand Prix erstwhile asked if Toyota had first correct to bargain should squad proprietor Gene Haas determine he wants to waste nan team. Some judge that nan 71-year aged is easing retired of racing aft Haas announced Stewart-Haas Racing, which Haas co-owns, is scaling down from 4 Cup Series cars to 1 astatine nan extremity of this NASCAR play successful June.

“To commencement with, Gene’s not trading nan team. Every azygous clip he’s asking me, ‘How tin we spell better? What tin we do to make nan car spell faster?’ He’s not willing successful selling,” Komatsu said. “I judge he had truthful galore offers, actually, but he refused each azygous 1 of them. So nan team’s not up for sale.”

Michael Andretti made aggregate overtures to acquisition Haas successful his grounded bid to get an F1 team, and Haas has consistently maintained he's not pulling retired of nan bid moreover though his squad is among nan slightest competitory connected nan grid.

Haas is seventh of 10 teams successful this year’s F1 constructors’ title standings.

Toyota announced 2 weeks agone it is returning to F1 aft 15 years arsenic Haas' method partner. Haas debuted Toyota branding connected its cars pinch past week's United States Grand Prix successful Austin, Texas, and Toyota said its racing section will supply “design, method and manufacturing services” to nan North Carolina-based team.

This doesn’t mean a return of nan Toyota useful squad which raced successful F1 for 8 seasons until 2009, however.

Haas will still title nether its ain name, and Toyota isn’t going to beryllium supplying engines for illustration it did for different teams successful nan 2000s. Haas already has an statement to usage Ferrari engines done 2028 arsenic portion of an existing business from Haas’ first F1 play successful 2016. Haas antecedently extended its Ferrari woody successful July to screen nan new F1 regulations coming successful 2026.

The woody extends Haas’ strategy of relying connected extracurricular partners for overmuch of nan activity that different F1 teams do in-house. Since its 2016 debut, nan U.S. squad has worked intimately pinch Ferrari — moreover basing its creation agency successful Ferrari’s hometown of Maranello, Italy — and relies connected Italian race-car builder Dallara to conception its cars.

“Ferrari and Dallara has been astonishing partners since time one. And past arsenic you tin see, you know, Ferrari, obviously, nan PU partner, gearbox, suspension, hydraulics — those areas, obviously, Toyota’s not touching,” Komatsu said. “The area that Toyota’s rubbing is nan area that we don’t get support from Ferrari, and that we’ve been doing it connected our own. That really conscionable adds to our capacity and past a chance to understand nan car amended truthful that we tin make our squad much competitive.”

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