Haas is the only team on the current grid of the highest category of motorsport that has not yet introduced any update so far this season and, according to the last words coming from the structure, the arrival of a new package, which would be the only important development made in the VF-22, will arrive with more delay than expected.
Since the campaign started in Bahrain, the American team has remained calm, making no changes to its car, giving preference to understanding its initial specification, in search of extracting more performance. A choice dictated, in large part, by the lessons learned in 2019, when the team’s engineers got lost between different development blueprints.
However, Haas is working hard on modifications that he could make to his car in the upcoming races. They were originally scheduled for the French Grand Prix , at the end of July, but the deadlines could not be met and they changed their plans, finally the new package will arrive at the Hungarian Grand Prix .
“It could arrive in Hungary,” Steiner explained as soon as he landed in Montreal. “We stayed behind, because we wanted to do some more checks in the wind tunnel, but now we are fully involved in the production phase so that everything arrives in Hungary. That is the objective. We are trying to improve, but I do not know where we are will carry these updates.
These developments should be visually noticeable in the American single-seater, and the fact of concentrating all its improvements in a single package raises expectations. “I expect it to be a very good step forward in terms of performance,” Steiner said. “I don’t care about the appearance, but for sure we will see a difference.”
This will be the only new package for the VF-22 : “We will go to next year’s car. That will be it, there will be no more developments. We are going to stop manufacturing parts for this single-seater. We are still doing developments and, obviously, if If we find something for this car that gives us a big advantage, we will. But we are not going to work on another big package for this car.”
Ahead of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, June 17-19, Haas arrives eighth in the constructors’ championship with 15 points, all scored by Kevin Magnussen, with the aim of returning to the points zone , something they have failed to do in the last four races.
Mick Schumacher at the wheel of the Haas VF-22 in Baku
