First F1 team of 2024 test new car on track

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First F1 team of 2024 test new car on track

Haas gave their VF-24 a shakedown at Silverstone ahead of the new season

Shay Rogers

Monday 12 February 2024 23:57

Haas have become the first team to take to the track in their 2024 car, ahead of pre-season testing in Bahrain in a little over a week's time.

The VF24 will be driven by Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen as they look to bounce back from a last-placed finish in the constructors' championship in 2023.

There’s a new team principal in town, with Drive to Survive favourite Guenther Steiner having left the team – Ayao Komatsu will now lead Haas.

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Komatsu has acknowledged that the team must ‘improve’ on an ‘embarrassing’ race pace from last year, which saw them swallowed up in grands prix too often.

The Haas VF-24 will hope to improve on the issues that plagued its predecessor

New Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu addresses the F1 media

Haas the first team to get to work

Nico Hulkenberg drove the car for 200km today, and it's expected that Kevin Magnussen will drive in their second shakedown at Bahrain on 19 February.

In a post which has received over 3,000 likes on X, Haas can be seen putting their new car to use at Silverstone.

Oh how we’ve missed that sound 🖤

The #VF24 has completed its first lap at our Silverstone Shakedown. #HaasF1 pic.twitter.com/si0zxLDjxg
— MoneyGram Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) February 11, 2024