Haas drivers to use ‘old Ferrari simulator’ amid 2022 preparations. Haas drivers to use 'old Ferrari simulator'.

Haas Team principal has Guenther Steiner has privided details on the team’s preparations ahead of the 2022 Formula 1 season, explaining that as part of the collaboration between Ferrari and Haas, Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin will get the chance to use an old simulator from Ferrari in order to get familiarized with the new 2022 challengers, given that Haas does not have such a tool:

“At the moment, we have done very little with [preparing the drivers for] the new era car,” Guenther Steiner said, as recently reported by RacingNews365.com – “We did go to the simulator before the test, because we are making the model we use, I call it the old Ferrari simulator, the commercial simulator from Ferrari. But we are just setting it up now. The first rounds will be [in the] beginning of February, and then we see. And that is how we get them at least hopefully somehow acquainted to how the new car behaves.” – he added.

American Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014 currently has a special set-up in that they do not have a dedicated manufacturing facility. But Haas has a close relationship with the Italian side, as the Ferrari manufacture listed parts – for which a Formula 1 has to hold the design rights – at a base in Maranello, separate to the main Ferrari factory. Haas also buy in their non-listed parts from outside sources.

Taking into consideration the structure of the American team – in terms of the role of Ferrari in creating parts of the car, as well as buying in non-listed parts from other sources – Guenther Steiner confirms there are elements of the design which are not in their control.

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“[It’s] difficult to say [in terms of a percentage]. Aero is always dominant on an F1 car, and we do our aero 100 percent ourselves. Obviously, suspension we buy, and therefore we have very little, if no input in that one, so that’s a given. I don’t know how much percentage you want to give to aero, but that’s 100 percent in our control. You want to give it a 50 percent? Because the rest is chassis and engine? I would say it’s a 50 percent. It’s in our control, 100 percent.” – he explained.

Guenther Steiner added that changes to the parts classification system have not had an effect on their control over the car.

“That didn’t change,” he said, when asked about the new FIA additional classification categories for the 2022 championship – “The fuel cell [now] is actually [a listed part]… The performance of the fuel side, obviously, you need to do it right. But everybody does it right. Some of the things are given anyway. How does the engine look, that defines your shape of the fuel cell anyway, on one side. But, with the fuel quantity and the geometry of the chassis, [they are] by regulation. For safety, there is not a lot of scope in it, and there is not a lot of performance in it. It’s a lot more work, obviously, to do it yourself than just buying a design fuel cell. But there is not a lot of performance in that one, so that is not a big part of it.” – the Haas boss concluded.