This week we’ve the newest in our sequence of F1 workforce principal interviews as we meet Ayao Komatsu on the HQ of Haas, F1’s smallest workforce.
What Haas might lack in headcount, they greater than make up for in workforce spirit, as this partaking interview reveals.
Ayao has been at Haas for the reason that workforce debuted in 2016. Final season Gene Haas picked him to succeed the charismatic however sweary Guenther Steiner as workforce principal. Ayao was born in Japan and moved to England as an adolescent to review English and pursue his dream of working in F1. He rose by means of the ranks as an engineer with Lotus and Renault, the place he labored intently with Romain Grosjean.
As a extremely aggressive F1 season involves a detailed, Haas is preventing Aston Martin and Racing Bulls for sixth within the constructors’ championship. Ayao displays on some key choices taken earlier this season which have boosted Haas’ current competitiveness. Oliver Bearman equalled the workforce’s greatest ever consequence with fourth in Mexico after which backed that up with one other robust factors haul in Brazil.
Becoming a member of James Allen within the studio for a wraparound chat is former Crimson Bull and Aston Martin F1 technical chief Dan Fallows.
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