F1: Haas boss predicts challenging year, but says: “We started very well”

F1: Haas boss predicts challenging year, but says: "We started very well"

Ayao Komatsu spoke about Haas’s good form at the start of the 2026 Formula 1 season. The director pointed out how challenging it will be to always maintain good performance, but is satisfied with the first races.

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The championship has already held the Australian, Chinese, and Japanese GPs, with the United States team scoring 18 points so far, two more than Alpine. As a result, it appears in fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship.

Oliver Bearman (GBR) Haas F1 Team VF-26.

But despite Haas’s very promising start in F1 2026, Komatsu acknowledged that maintaining this form for the next 19 races until the end of the year will be complicated.

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“This year will be a very difficult development battle and, as a small team, it will be very challenging. But we started the year very well. This kind of result doesn’t happen every year,” he said.

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