Haas Rejects Ferrari’s New Pullrod For 2025 Front Suspension

Haas has forged its own path for 2025, crafting a bespoke front suspension rather than adopting Ferrari’s all-new pullrod design for their latest car.

The American outfit took an unusual tack at Bahrain’s pre-season test, shunning pace runs for high-fuel slogging. “Our new car has retained the good qualities of the old one,” team boss Ayao Komatsu said.

He dismissed chasing laptimes: “What good is it to me if I know today whether we’re fifth or eighth? I can’t change anything until Melbourne because we won’t have any new parts by then.”

For 2025, Haas hits the budget cap ceiling for the first time. “We know where we want to spend the extra money, but we have to learn how to do it,” Komatsu told Auto Motor und Sport. “We will end up with 350 employees and still hit the budget ceiling. But that is inefficient. Other teams have 900 employees and stay within the limit. We still have to learn how to spend our money efficiently – for example, how many parts should we buy at a set price and how many should we produce ourselves?”

The front suspension stayed in-house. “The price would have been that we would have received the data from Ferrari for the front end very late,” Komatsu revealed. “We would have lost too much time for the aerodynamic development. The bottom line would have been a disadvantage for us.”

The rear, though, is pure Ferrari. “The (Ferrari) rear is a great advantage for the car,” he said. “It was obvious that we buy it from Ferrari.”

The result? A 2025 Haas visually distinct from Ferrari—nose, front wing, sidepods, and cooling all bear Haas’s stamp.