Gene Haas’ New Formula 1 Team Will Struggle If They Don’t Build Their Own Car

Gene Haas was in Montreal two weeks ago, visiting the paddock and looking for an engine to power his new Formula One team's car. Although Haas originally said that Dallara would likely build the team's first chassis, the news came last week, from Autosport's Jonathan Noble, that he has decided not to hire the Italian company after all. Maybe someone showed him HRT's 2010 results. Haas told Autosport that the "list of parts we can buy, as it increases, we want to be the team that takes advantage of that rule and try to buy as much as we can. It just costs too much to make all these intricate little detailed parts." The American owner also reconfirmed that his eventual goal is to build the entire chassis at his f...

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