Haas F1 group ‘realized extra in Bahrain take a look at than all of 2025’

Haas System 1 driver Esteban Ocon says the American outfit “realized the quantity that we realized in the entire of final yr” throughout the Bahrain pre-season take a look at.

Final week’s Bahrain take a look at was the primary official working of the brand new automobile laws, following the Barcelona shakedown on the finish of January.

Haas comes into the brand new guidelines period off the again of a disappointing 2025 marketing campaign, wherein it completed eighth within the constructors’ standings and simply shy of 60 factors off midfield chief Williams.

However the American group has loved a constructive winter up to now, finishing excessive mileage in testing and exhibiting promising tempo, with Ollie Bearman sixth total after three days of working at Bahrain.

“Feeling good,” Esteban Ocon mentioned.

“We’re most likely the second group with essentially the most laps all through the entire testing section.

“We’re actually sturdy on the reliability aspect.

“We’ve managed to assemble quite a lot of data, quite a lot of information, and we made a step ahead by way of efficiency and understanding.”

Ocon praised Haas’ readiness this winter in getting the brand new automobile on monitor for the primary exams, whereas noting that it has realized extra during the last week in Bahrain than it did throughout the 2025 marketing campaign.

“I feel by way of how prepared we had been, we had been one of many first ones to place the automobile on monitor,” he added.

“Some groups weren’t prepared. We had been. And we introduced some updates fairly late into final yr.

“So, it was very spectacular from the group’s aspect to have the ability to be that prepared and to have the ability to have the miles early on within the automobile.

“On that aspect of issues it’s good. In fact, we nonetheless want to grasp quite a lot of issues.

“There’s quite a lot of gadgets on the vitality administration and stuff we have to repair and get higher, and that we’re studying as we go.

“However total I feel, in three days, we’ve realized the quantity that we realized in the entire of final yr.”

Haas group boss Ayao Komatsu revealed on Friday that Haas would have extra updates to deliver for subsequent week’s Bahrain take a look at, with that bundle more likely to be raced in Australia.