The American-owned outfit has had an impressive start to the new campaign, with Kevin Magnussen reaching Q3 on his F1 return in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and scoring points in both races.
Mick Schumacher also finished a career-best 11th in Bahrain, but was forced to miss the Jeddah race due to a heavy qualifying crash caused by running wide over the circuit’s unforgiving kerbs.
The team’s form is a major step forward over last year, when Haas was stuck at the back of the grid with an undeveloped car because it wanted to focus all its efforts on designing this year’s challenger.
With the new VF-22 appearing to be strong enough to fight towards the front of the chasing back behind Ferrari and Red Bull, the team believes that its handling characteristics have played a big part in the drivers being able to extract strong pace from it.
Asked by Autosport about where the Haas was strong compared to other teams, De Zordo said: “It seems since when we started to use it, it was…
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