MoneyGram Haas F1 Group has appointed Ayao Komatsu as its new Group Principal, with Guenther Steiner departing the group with instant impact, having led its operations for the previous decade. Komatsu, promoted from his position as Director of Engineering, has been with the crew since its debut season in 2016 – beginning as Chief Race Engineer.
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With over 20 years of System 1 expertise in engineering and administration, the 47-year-old Japanese engineering graduate commenced his profession in motorsport at British American Racing earlier than a protracted tenure at Renault. Komatsu will now oversee all competitors parts of the enterprise as Group Principal.
Komatsu will take duty for the crew’s total technique and finally on-track efficiency, with a short to maximise the crew’s potential by way of worker empowerment, structural course of, and effectivity.
To additional strengthen crew operations off-track and in assist of Komatsu’s performance-led focus as Group Principal, a European-based Chief Working Officer might be appointed to handle all non-competition issues and departments; the position is predicted to be primarily based at MoneyGram Haas F1 Group’s Banbury facility.
Gene Haas, Group Proprietor at MoneyGram Haas F1 Group, commented:
“I’d like to start out by extending my due to Guenther Steiner for all his exhausting work over the previous decade, and I want him nicely for the long run. Transferring ahead as a company, we clearly want to enhance our on-track performances. In appointing Ayao Komatsu as Group Principal, we basically have engineering on the coronary heart of our administration.
Now we have had some successes, however we should persistently ship outcomes that assist us attain our broader targets as a company. We have to be environment friendly with our sources, however bettering our design and engineering functionality is significant to our success as a crew. I’m wanting ahead to working with Ayao and maximizing our potential – this displays my want to compete correctly in System 1.
Ayao Komatsu, newly-appointed Group Principal of the MoneyGram Haas F1 Group, said:
I’m naturally very excited to have the chance to be Group Principal at MoneyGram Haas F1 Group. Having been with the crew since its observe debut again in 2016, I’m clearly passionately invested in its success in System 1. I’m wanting ahead to main our program and the varied aggressive operations internally to make sure we are able to construct a construction that produces improved on-track performances.
We’re a performance-based enterprise. We clearly haven’t been aggressive sufficient lately, which has been irritating for us all. Now we have incredible assist from Gene and our varied companions, and we need to mirror their enthusiasm with an improved on-track product. Now we have an amazing crew of individuals throughout Kannapolis, Banbury and Maranello, and collectively, I do know we are able to obtain the type of outcomes we’re able to.
The 2024 FIA System 1 World Championship commences with pre-season testing on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit from February 21-23, with the season-opener – the Bahrain Grand Prix- on the identical venue from February 29 – March 2.
About MoneyGram Haas F1 Group:
MoneyGram Haas F1 Group debuted within the FIA System 1 World Championship in 2016, changing into the primary American System 1 crew since 1986. Based by industrialist Gene Haas, MoneyGram Haas F1 Group relies in america on the identical Kannapolis, North Carolina, campus as his championship-winning NASCAR crew, Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas based Haas Automation, North America’s largest CNC machine device builder and chairman of MoneyGram Haas F1 Group.
