Gene Haas’ New Formula 1 Team Will Struggle If They Don’t Build Their Own Car

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Published: June 19, 2014

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Gene Haas was in Montreal two weeks ago, visiting the paddock and looking for an engine to power his new Formula One team's car.

Although Haas originally said that Dallara would likely build the team's first chassis, the news came last week, from Autosport's Jonathan Noble, that he has decided not to hire the Italian company after all. Maybe someone showed him HRT's 2010 results.

Haas told Autosport that the "list of parts we can buy, as it increases, we want to be the team that takes advantage of that rule and try to buy as much as we can. It just costs too much to make all these intricate little detailed parts."

The American owner also reconfirmed that his eventual goal is to build the entire chassis at his factory in North Carolina.



All of this may sound good—start off buying what you can and slowly build production capacity and engineering expertise—but it is not a recipe for success.

We need not look any further than this year's grid for an illustration of the advantages of being a constructor rather than a customer (although this example involves engines rather than chassis).

For 2014, Mercedes designed an innovative power unit that is clearly better than Ferrari's and Renault's efforts. Yet, despite the advantage of that power unit, Mercedes customers—Force India, McLaren and Williams—are trailing Ferrari and Red Bull (Renault's most important customer) in the Constructors' Championship.

Buying pieces of a car, even a successful one, does not mean you will have the same success with them. The designer and builder always have more time to integrate the pieces into their car and, obviously, each piece is custom-built to their specifications. Customers take what they are given.

The real path to success in F1, as has been ably demonstrated by Red Bull and Mercedes over the ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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