The VF-16, Haas F1 Team\u2019s first racecar, has arrived! The car was revealed February 21st to the world motorsport press at the Circuit de Barcelona \u2013 Catalunya, where it began pre-season testing, February 22nd.<\/p>\n
Of all Haas machines with VF nomenclature, this four-wheeled, Ferrari-powered model has been perhaps the most eagerly anticipated since Gene Haas stated his intentions to enter the world\u2019s greatest race series, less than 2-years ago. Haas Automation Inc., the company Mr. Haas founded in 1983, is Haas F1 Team\u2019s principal sponsor and the genesis of the F1 venture.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom an international standpoint, Formula One is the highest echelon of racing, and Haas Automation builds the highest-quality machine tools,\u201d said Mr. Haas, who has grown Haas Automation Inc. into the largest machine tool builder in North America, with more than $1 billion in annual sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you hear the words Formula One<\/em> you know exactly what they stand for: a global racing series that invests in the latest technology and attracts the best talent in engineering and design. Haas Automation has an excellent reputation in the United States \u2013 for reliability, innovation, and value for money \u2013 and I want that reputation to continue to grow worldwide. Connecting Haas Automation with F1 in name and in practice is the best way to grow our business, and elevate Haas Automation to a premium, global brand.\u201d<\/p>\n The dark grey, light grey, and striking red-toned livery of the Haas VF-16 was derived from that of Haas Automation\u2019s CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, turning centers, and CNC rotary tables and indexers: a \u2018complete\u2019 line of high-productivity CNC products.<\/p>\n The Oxnard, California-based Haas Automation Inc. employs around 1300 people, and exports approximately 60% of its annual production to more than 60 countries. There are close to 185,000 Haas CNC machine tools installed around the world, supported by a network of 170 Haas Factory Outlets (HFOs) \u2013 independently owned sales and technical service businesses, dedicated to providing industry-leading support, wherever a customer is based.<\/p>\n The VF-16 demonstrates Haas Automation\u2019s \u2013 and Gene Haas\u2019 \u2013 commitment to technology and innovation to a passionate, global audience, many of whom are already Haas customers, or who perhaps work in the precision engineering and manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cJust as Haas Automation\u2019s CNC machine tools evolve continually, becoming better and more efficient as time goes by, our methodology behind the VF-16 was to make it the best evolution of a good F1 car,\u201d explained Guenther Steiner, team principal, Haas F1 Team. \u201cAs we\u2019re a new team, we studied what the successful F1 teams were doing, so we had a strong baseline for the direction we needed to go with our design.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to go out there and show that we can do the job \u2013 that\u2019s our first objective,\u201d states Steiner. \u201cThen show we can finish races, that we are respected by the fans and other teams in the paddock and, of course, that we can score points. That\u2019s the goal!\u201d<\/p>\n The VF-16 is being tested on-track at Barcelona Feb. 22-25 and March 1-4, before its debut race, the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, March 20, in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The VF-16, Haas F1 Team\u2019s first racecar, has arrived! The car was revealed February 21st to the world motorsport press at the Circuit de Barcelona \u2013 Catalunya, where it began pre-season testing, February 22nd. Of all Haas machines with VF nomenclature, this four-wheeled, Ferrari-powered model has been perhaps the most eagerly anticipated since Gene Haas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,54,1],"tags":[657,663,669],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnc","category-haas-updates","category-uncategorized","tag-haas","tag-haas-f1-team","tag-haas-vf-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}