Has Haas F1 Ever Won a Race?
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- No: Haas has never won a race or finished on the podium since entering Formula 1 in 2016. Their best result is P4, achieved twice, by Romain Grosjean at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix and by Oliver Bearman at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix.
- Haas is owned by Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation, and races for the 2026 season as TGR Haas F1 Team after Toyota Gazoo Racing replaced MoneyGram as title sponsor.
- Guenther Steiner, team principal since the team’s 2016 debut, left the role in January 2024 and was replaced by Ayao Komatsu, who leads the team into 2026 with Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman as drivers.
Haas F1 Team made its debut in the 2016 season as the first American-led team to compete in Formula 1 in over 30 years. It is owned by Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation, North America’s largest CNC machine tool manufacturer, whose fortune and path to Formula 1 started decades before the team’s grid debut. Since then, the team has scored points, taken a handful of near-miss results, and been through a full team principal change, but a race win, or even a podium, has stayed out of reach. Here’s the team’s actual record, corrected against the results, not the highlight reel.
Where Haas F1 Came From
Gene Haas started out sweeping floors in a machine shop at 14, before founding Proturn Engineering in 1978 and launching Haas Automation in 1983 with three employees. The company’s VF-1 vertical machining centre, priced at an unheard-of $49,900 when it launched, helped build Haas Automation into the manufacturing giant it is today. Haas had already tasted motorsport success before F1, first through Haas CNC Racing and then Stewart-Haas Racing, the NASCAR team he formed with Tony Stewart in 2009 that won Cup Series championships in 2011 and 2014.
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The FIA granted Haas an entry licence in 2014, and the team debuted in 2016 with a technical partnership structure that was unusual for the time: Haas bought its engine, gearbox and as many listed parts as the regulations allowed from Ferrari, rather than building a fully independent car from scratch. Guenther Steiner, previously of Jaguar Racing and Red Bull Racing, was hired as team principal and ran the team from its first race until he left the role in January 2024, when Ayao Komatsu, the team’s long-serving Head of Race Engineering, was promoted to replace him.
A Strong Debut, Then a Long Search for More
Haas’s first season remains one of the best debuts by a new constructor in F1 history. Romain Grosjean brought the VF-16 home sixth at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, scoring points in the team’s very first race, then backed it up with fifth place in Bahrain two races later, giving Haas points finishes in each of its first two Grands Prix. Haas ended its debut season eighth in the constructors’ championship on 29 points, still the strongest points haul by a genuinely new team this millennium.
The team’s results since then have moved around considerably:
- 2016: 8th, 29 points
- 2017: 8th, 47 points
- 2018: 5th, the team’s best-ever constructors’ finish
- 2019: 8th, 28 points
- 2020: 9th, 3 points
- 2021: last, scored no points at all, having deliberately frozen development of that year’s car to focus resources on the incoming 2022 regulations
- 2022: 8th, 37 points
- 2023: 10th, last in the standings
- 2024: 7th, a genuine recovery season under new leadership
- 2025: 9th
Has Haas Ever Won a Race or Reached the Podium?
No. Across ten seasons, Haas has never won a Grand Prix and has never stood on the podium. Their best result, P4, has been achieved exactly twice.
The first came at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix, where Grosjean finished fourth and teammate Kevin Magnussen finished fifth, still the team’s only double top-five result. “This is fantastic, in our 50th race, to finish fourth and fifth,” Steiner said after the race.
The second came seven years later, at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix, when Oliver Bearman carved through the field from ninth on the grid to match Grosjean’s result exactly. “We finished there on merit,” Bearman said afterwards. “Even if we didn’t have the pace to qualify there, we had the race pace to stay there.” Team principal Ayao Komatsu called it a long time coming: “We have always been there this season, fighting and never had a big result… what a fantastic job.”
It is worth noting what Haas’s near-misses have actually looked like. The team’s most infamous bad day came at the 2018 Australian Grand Prix, not a podium denied by misfortune, but a double retirement caused by their own pit crew: both cars were sent out with incorrectly torqued wheel nuts and had to be retired within two laps of each other. Steiner was blunt about the cause at the time: “We had two failures on the pit stops, didn’t tie the wheels on correctly, so we had to stop the cars.”
Driver Line-Up Changes
Haas has run through a long list of drivers since 2016, with mixed results. Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen anchored the team for most of its first five seasons, before Grosjean’s horrific fireball crash and survival at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix ended his time with the team. For 2021, Haas ran an all-rookie line-up of Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin, scoring no points across the season as the team focused its energy on the new car coming for 2022. Magnussen returned in 2022 alongside Schumacher, then partnered Nico Hulkenberg from 2023. Since 2025, the line-up has been Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman, who continue together into the 2026 season.
Haas F1 Team in 2026
Haas heads into 2026 under its new identity as TGR Haas F1 Team, after Toyota Gazoo Racing took over as title sponsor from MoneyGram ahead of the season, deepening a technical relationship that already included Toyota’s driver development pipeline. The team continues to run out of its US headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina, alongside a forward operating base in Banbury, England, and a design office in Maranello, Italy, shared with technical partner Ferrari.
Under Komatsu, Haas has generally been more competitive than its early 2020s form suggested, sitting in the midfield mix through the 2026 season so far. Whether that translates into the team’s long-awaited first podium, or first win, remains to be seen. For now, the record stands as it has for a decade: two identical fourth places, and no wins.
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Haas F1 Team FAQs
What is Haas F1 Team?
Haas F1 Team is an American Formula 1 constructor that made its competitive debut in 2016. It is owned by Gene Haas and, for the 2026 season, competes as TGR Haas F1 Team under a title partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing.
Has Haas F1 ever won a race?
No. Haas has never won a Formula 1 race. Their best-ever finish is fourth place, achieved by Romain Grosjean at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix and matched by Oliver Bearman at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix.
Has Haas F1 ever had a podium finish?
No. Despite a decade on the grid, Haas has never finished on the podium in Formula 1.
What is Haas F1’s highest finish in the constructors’ championship?
Fifth place, achieved in the 2018 season.
Where is Haas F1’s headquarters located?
Haas F1 Team’s US headquarters is in Kannapolis, North Carolina, alongside founder Gene Haas’s other manufacturing operations.
Who is Haas F1’s team principal?
Ayao Komatsu, who was promoted from Head of Race Engineering to replace Guenther Steiner in January 2024. Steiner had led the team since its 2016 debut.