Haas has debuted its Toyota-backed 2026 VF-26 car at Fiorano marking the seventh team to hit the track in Formula 1‘s latest era.
The Banbury-based outfit will be entering its 11th full-time season in the sport this year. Marking its decade-long stint in the sport, the team has also entered F1’s latest era with the 2026 regulations reset taking shape.
Haas has now become the seventh team on the grid to finally give its 2026 challenger some track time.
Earlier today, the VF-26 took its first laps, as Oliver Bearman rolled out at Ferrari’s test track at Fiorano. The Scuderia had also debuted the SF-26, only 24 hours ago, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc in attendance at the venue.
Haas is still, for all intents and purposes, a Ferrari customer team, and will be employing the Maranello-based squad’s all-new 2026 power units during this regulations phase.
That said, the Ayao Komatsu-led operation is heading towards autonomy, thanks to its technical partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing – the Japanese automobile giants’ motorsport division.
In fact, 2026 will see Haas make further strides forwards with this partnership – being entered as TGR Haas F1 Team – and is also expected to have its own simulator by the first-half of the year.
So far, Alpine, Racing Bulls, Mercedes, Audi, Cadillac and Ferrari have all also driven its first laps on track ahead of the first official shakedown run scheduled between the 26th and 30th of January at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Only Red Bull, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams are yet to have any sort of track time under their belts with the Grove-based team already announcing that it won’t take part during the Barcelona tests owing to reportedly having failed the FIA-mandated crash tests.
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