As it enters the 2025 Formula 1 season, the HAAS team has achieved a milestone moment about their budget and overall funding sources.
The team’s principal Aiyao Komatsu recently said in a roundateable interview that Motorsport.com participated that the owner of the squad Jean Has “first … does not need to invest his money – it’s very good.”
While a notable statement alone, Komatsu’s specific terms remained a certain amount of ambiguity.
After all, the team is present as a marketing exercise for HAAS automation – so obviously it uses genes’ money to make its budget every year and 2025 is no exception.
But Motorsport.com understands that for the first time in the team’s history, Haas has not entered the year facing a funding loss. Previously, when his squad required additional funds, Jean Has has provided the required top from his individual funds.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal, Has F1 Team, Jean Has, Malik and Founder, Hospital F1 Team, Grid
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There are two major elements behind the positive budget status of Has for 2025. The first is the estimated $ 30M prize money that is made up to the 2023 constructed standing to finish last year in the standing of 2023.
The team was a favorite for another $ 10m profit with the sixth place held for the post -2024 part, but it was papped by Alpine In Brazil, in a late campaign after the Neston team’s major points with their dual podium results in Brazil.
This time the second important financial benefit for Has in terms of its 2025 budget is concerned about its sponsorship income. Along with Toyota, now HAAS automation and existing title sponsor Manigram along with Manigram -also added funds, Has is also the first time that is now working on the budget cap limit of F1.
However, the boundary of Haas is $ 15 meters less than the level of $ 135 million for its opposition, its design process and the supply of parts in view of its unique approach to car production in outsourcing. Ferrari And Dalara respectively.
But the American Squad still has any of the least of 10 teams the lowest staffing headcon.
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Even with its current recruitment race, its total is still just 330 – well on the estimated 1,000 employees in big teams like Ferrari and well Mercedes,
That husband is now working on the cap limit, it suggests that it is the main outgoing for outgoing its growth for external companies, which is a limited room to find savings or capacity.
At the same time, along with Toyota being part of the technical partner coalition system, was declared in the last October, which means that the manufacturer’s logo and branding portrayed prominently on VF -24 of 2024 and possibly again this year This will be done with VF -25, Toyota is also providing a lot of other resources to Has.
These will allow HAAS to run the first test of the previous cars and also form a new simulator on its banbury base.
Motorsport.com understands that most TPC funding comes from within the budget cap expenditure so far, as well as the simulator is made once after operation.
However, the construction of that feature falls under the separate CAPEX range, all teams must follow.
Kevin Magnesen, Haas VF -24
Photo by photo: Lubomeir Essenov / Motorsport Images
Jean Haas is being presented with an option to an alternative to the plan to expand the current tight banbari facility of Has – where the construction of the new simulator has not yet begun – or completely moved to a new site.
Asked by cotorsport.com, what he reacted after his first season after his first season, after the excelling of the predecessor Gujar Steiner, Komatsu replied: “Jean lots at the end of last season Was happy Honestly, I felt that he would be sad that we could not get P6, but before I realized, my phone was ringing.
“We finished (Abu Dhabi 2024 Finale), I said that you thank people, and by the time I went out of the garage, I already had a message from the gene that congratulates us Had been.
“It was pleasant – it was not surprising but nice to hear this. I called him and he directly said that ‘many congratulations – this is such a wonderful achievement’, which honestly you do not get from genes often.
“I was pleasant and grateful to his comments. Of course, he is very competitive and definitely wants more. He is always setting me an ambitious goal and my work is actually trying to hit a realistic goal. But he is really excited. ,
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