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American entrepreneur Gene Haas is currently busy putting together his Formula 1 team, which will operate with close assistance from Ferrari.
Haas, also the co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup team, recently talked to CNN about Haas F1 Team, which will be based near Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Haas F1 Team will become the first new outfit to join the grid since the FIA accepted the entries of three start-up outfits in 2010: Caterham, Marussia and HRT. The Spanish team disappeared at the end of 2012, while the other two are struggling financially.
Gene Haas is perfectly aware that the road to F1 is not easy.
“I think in the first five years it's just surviving. I don't have any expectations of grandeur that we're going to go out there and win championships. If we could even win one race in five races that'd be a tremendous success,” Haas told CNN.
“Just the association of being with Formula 1 basically takes our brand from nobody to in the stratosphere. Sooner or later we'll march up. I'm not expecting to beat anybody, just maybe beat the guys at the back.”
The owner of Haas Automation thinks that the 2010 new teams all made mistakes in the early stages of their entries into F1, and his organization have therefore learned what not to do.
“I think that the biggest problem they had is trying to get to the grid so fast they wound up having to take on partnerships that maybe weren't thoroughly thought out and wound up making a lot of mistakes,” Haas told CNN.
“Inevitably they didn't have the resources or the cars weren't properly put together because they rushed things.”
Haas F1 Team will have the assistance from Ferrari.
“Ferrari wanted to go beyond being just an engine supplier and they were going to help us with the basic structures of the car,” Gene Haas declared.
"It's an honour to have Ferrari help us in this way and we take all the help they can give us because you can't really get better than Ferrari."
Haas, also the co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup team, recently talked to CNN about Haas F1 Team, which will be based near Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Haas F1 Team will become the first new outfit to join the grid since the FIA accepted the entries of three start-up outfits in 2010: Caterham, Marussia and HRT. The Spanish team disappeared at the end of 2012, while the other two are struggling financially.
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Gene Haas is perfectly aware that the road to F1 is not easy.
“I think in the first five years it's just surviving. I don't have any expectations of grandeur that we're going to go out there and win championships. If we could even win one race in five races that'd be a tremendous success,” Haas told CNN.
“Just the association of being with Formula 1 basically takes our brand from nobody to in the stratosphere. Sooner or later we'll march up. I'm not expecting to beat anybody, just maybe beat the guys at the back.”
The owner of Haas Automation thinks that the 2010 new teams all made mistakes in the early stages of their entries into F1, and his organization have therefore learned what not to do.
“I think that the biggest problem they had is trying to get to the grid so fast they wound up having to take on partnerships that maybe weren't thoroughly thought out and wound up making a lot of mistakes,” Haas told CNN.
“Inevitably they didn't have the resources or the cars weren't properly put together because they rushed things.”
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| Marco Mattiacci (Ferrari) and Gene Haas in Montreal, Canada. (Photo: WRi2) |
Haas F1 Team will have the assistance from Ferrari.
“Ferrari wanted to go beyond being just an engine supplier and they were going to help us with the basic structures of the car,” Gene Haas declared.
"It's an honour to have Ferrari help us in this way and we take all the help they can give us because you can't really get better than Ferrari."