- Haas ink multi-year deal with Toyota Gazoo Racing
- Toyota’s motorsport arm to bring design, technical and manufacturing services
- Company pulled out of F1 at end of 2009
Haas have announced a new multi-year technical partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing as the Formula One team bid to increase their competitiveness in Formula One.
The American team, who made its Formula One debut in 2016, says the partnership with the motorsport arm of Toyota Motor Corporation will bring design, technical and manufacturing services.
It marks a return to the sport for the Japanese motor giant for the first time since 2009, when Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock guided the Toyota team to fifth in the constructors’ standings.
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Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu is excited by the deal and believes the collaboration will be hugely beneficial.
“The ability to tap into the resources and knowledge base available at Toyota Gazoo Racing, while benefiting from their technical and manufacturing processes, will be instrumental in our own development and our clear desire to further increase our competitiveness in Formula One,” Komatsu said.
“Everyone at MoneyGram Haas F1 team is looking forward to the collaborative results of this new relationship, we can’t wait to get started and fulfil our combined ambitions.”
Haas, whose long-standing partnership with Scuderia Ferrari is set to continue, are seventh in this season’s constructors’ standings ahead of their home race at the United States Grand Prix next weekend.
Toyota Gazoo Racing currently compete in the World Rally Championship (WRC) and World Endurance Championship (WEC).
Tomoya Takahashi, president of Gazoo Racing Company added: “We are pleased to announce that MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Toyota Gazoo Racing have concluded a basic agreement to enter a technical partnership such as Haas vehicle development.
“By competing alongside MoneyGram Haas F1 Team at the pinnacle of motorsports, we aim to cultivate drivers, engineers, and mechanics while strengthening the capabilities of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team and Toyota Gazoo Racing, and we desire to contribute to motorsports and the automotive industry.”
The deal was announced at Toyota-owned Fuji International Speedway and will see Toyota Gazoo Racing branding visible on Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen’s Haas cars starting from next weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin.
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