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So if you always want to start a podcast and make money doing it go to Anchor dot f m / start to join me and the diverse community of podcasters already using anchor that's anchored dot f m / start. I can't wait to hear your podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back for another episode of the Haas team podcast. My name is Brad grew and today's podcast is episode zero zero one who is Haas F1 and what can we expect in 2019? And before we get started talking about the really awesome things that hasta did during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix last night. I just want to personally stop and say a few things. Thank you so much to the Haas community and the F1 Community for the warm welcome. There's been an overwhelmingly positive feedback experience regarding our first episode and we've only Lon On two platforms and even though that's the case the podcast has been listened to several hundred times. So thank you so much for the warm welcome. I look forward to Growing this podcast with you the community and making it something great and hopefully Haas F1 follows us to Greatness for the remainder of the 2009-10 season one final thing before we get started with the episode. I just want to thank the moderators from the Haas F1 team subreddit, which you should go to if you're a hoss fan go to reddit.com slash are slash Haas F1 Team all one onward and on the right side of the page, they put a link to our podcast. So thank you so much to them for embracing the podcast as well. They were also graceful enough to make me a moderator. So come join me in other Hospital attics in the Haas F1 team subreddit and get into the nitty-gritty of the details that will discuss within this podcast and then much much more information, but with all of that out of the way, it's time to cue Montell Jordan. Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm really pumped after the qualifying efforts of the Haas F1 team. But before we get to that, let's slow things down because I know many of the listeners are the podcast are going to be new fans of F1 and new fans of Haas. I thought I'd just take the first five or ten minutes of this episode and kind of talk about Haas and where they come from and who they are and then we'll dive into the meat and potatoes of the episode. So first of all, let's talk about the history of Haas F1. Sep 1 team debuted in Formula 1 championship in 2016 becoming the first American LED Formula One team since 1986. It was founded by industrialist Gene Haas and is based in the United States on the same Kannapolis North Carolina campus as genes championship-winning NASCAR team Stewart-Haas Racing and Haas has grown to currently employs over 250 people across two continents and we'll dive into that deeper as the podcast goes on. I don't mean so much this episode. I mean a future episodes for those that don't know and are new to F1. There's not racist. Every weekend because they have to travel four five six thousand miles sometimes so like after the Australian Grand Prix before Bahrain, there's a week lull and so I'm thinking about doing you know, these knowledge nugget type episodes between those grand prix's will dive more into Hassan their operations during that time, but I think it is important to at least cover the key players of Haas and so we could start with that now and the key players we're going to discuss is Haas F1 founder. Jean Hass Hass F1 team principal Gunther Steiner and Haas drivers Kevin magnussen and Romain grosjean. Gene Haas is an American Racing icon and founder and chairman of the house F1 team in 1983. Gene founded Haas Automation Inc, which is now world leader in Machining tools and automation products through the years the success of his company allowed him to fund many of his racing dreams including being a competitive racer himself in 2002. He founded Haas CNC racing which eventually became the multi Champion winning Stewart-Haas Racing team in NASCAR Haas. Got his first taste of the up one world when he built windshear a Rolling Road wind tunnel and it is said that there first Customer was a Formula One team house was eventually granted license by the FIA in 2014 to join the starting grid of the FIA Formula One World Championship in 2016 and its inaugural season Haas F1 team finished. Eighth in the constructors standings with the total of 29 Points the most of any new team in this Millennium and 2017. They finished with 47 points placing eighth in the constructors again, and last season, they placed fifth in the constructors with 93 points glitter Steiner is team principal of Haas F1 team and has over 30 years of Motorsports experience. He Joined F1 and 2002 as the managing director of Jaguar racing then in 2005. He was tapped to be the technical operations director of Red Bull Racing where he managed a team of more than 350 people with a budget of more than two hundred million dollars. Annually. He then went on to form a composite manufacturing and racing development company before being tasked by Gene Haas to kick-start the Haas F1 efforts Romain grosjean is the 32 year old fridge driver for the number-8 Haas car who got his first scene F-14 Renault in 2009 after his short stint with the French team. He landed at load. This in 2012 has been with Hassan sir inaugural season in 2016 after a rough start to the 2018 season remain pulled it together to score 37 points for the season putting him in p14 overall for his career grosjean has 10 podiums with the highest finish of second place the highest start of second place as well. Kevin magnussen is the 26 year old Danish driver for the number 20 Haas car who got his first F1 start in 2014 racing for McLaren for 2015 to 2016. He was a test driver for both McLaren. And Renault before being tasked to replace Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez who disappointed in his first season with Hast by scoring only six points Kevin or kmag? His fans called had a strong showing in 2018 and wasn't a fight for the best of the rest in the constructors standings before a string of bad luck late in the season cost him his chance at beating route rival. Nico hulkenberg kmag finished P9 for the 2018 season scoring a hosta F1 team record 56 points over his career came bag has one Podium a hundred thirty seven points with a heist finished of and place and a high starting position of forth. Now with the key players out of the way. Let's talk for a brief moment about the keys to hostas early success with NF1 Haas has a close relationship with their engine provider Ferrari and have taken a more cost-effective approach to the manufacturing of their cars Haas currently does not make their car chassis in-house instead. They Outsource that work to renowned Italian racing manufacturer the Lara the decision to Outsource these processes as a young team have been critical to their success thus far first, they didn't require as much capital for getting their team off the ground. Second the ramp up time to deliver a car that could pass F1 strict safety regulations in 2016 did not take as long as if they had built the car themselves in the house third. It allows them to operate on a shoestring budget putting valuable resources into adding more team members to the team itself their decision to go. This route is not come without some controversy. They're not very well liked by the other Midfield teams, especially the long-standing teams that have been struggling who have the money in capital who just can't seem to put together a good car including McLaren and William specifically. And we're not going to waste time on those. Whiny Frenchie's at Renault with that said The Lean Startup does come with some downsides specifically when midseason changes are made by the FIA and the 2018 Italian Grand Prix Romain grosjean was disqualified from a sixth place finish du du hast not making the required changes for the floor of their cars costing the team a crucial eight points in the battle for fourth in the constructors standings again winey winey Renault Haas protest stating that they did not have time to meet the six-week deadline. And this was likely due to them having to design the parts in house. Then sending them to the Lara for manufacturing and then getting them back for testing tweaks and alterations in the final product the disqualification stood however, and Hast ended up finishing fifth in the constructors standings when they had a real shot 4/4 hostas end goal is to win and with both our Founders and their team principal having extensive backgrounds with Composites and parts manufacturing. It is only a matter of time until Haas takes complete control of their parts design and Manufacturing, but for now Outsourcing that allows them to compete at a higher level, but right now Outsourcing allows them to focus their Limited. Good capital on more important areas of the car think of their rise and F1 as a marathon not a Sprint as they progress each season, they get more money and the better-paying sponsors which helps them to expand the team. They want to be able to eventually engineer their own Parts because it reduces the time it takes to roll out in season changes and improvements currently their turnaround time is at least six weeks. So if they see a problem engineer fix and have it manufactured it takes three to four times longer than it does for most of the other teams, if you know anything about Gene Haas, you'll know that his goal is to win which means that they probably won't be a Ferrari customer. Ever their real goal is to become the primary team for another engine manufacturer who may enter if one Ford an Audi which falls under Volkswagen have been rumored in recent years. Either way. The goal is to just keep getting better each season getting more money and expanding their F1 operations. So if you haven't figured out by now that a race to the top with F1 is all about money Haas is a mid-level team, but it operates on a shoestring budget when compared to the top three teams and even some of the mid-level teams with more Legacy, especially Renault McLaren and Williams the top three teams are the only teams really with the chance of winning a race in 2019. And those are Ferrari Mercedes and Red Bull but due to the craziness of races a Podium is not out of the question for other teams, including Haas for 2019. There are four engine manufacturers in F1 Ferrari Mercedes Renault and Honda and as I've said Haas is a Ferrari customer. This means that Haas pays the use the Ferrari engines and to receive critical data from Ferrari. It also means that they are limited on what they can do because Ferrari obviously wants to win with that said Ferrari has clearly been the best motor for the past four to five years, which is a good thing for the Midfield battle hostas goal. And the goal for every team that's not Red Bull Ferrari or Mercedes is the finished fourth in the constructors standings. There are tens of million dollars of play for finishing as high as you can and the constructors standings. The constructors standings are overall points for a team. Meaning there are two cars and drivers hospitals fifth last year as we've discussed but couldn't finish fourth not for self-inflicted Mistakes by both the team and Driver grosjean, especially let the lot of points on the track last year. So it's certainly in the realm of possibility for them to end up before however, if practice sessions in the qualifying sessions in Australia this weekend are any indicator The Midfield is going to be closer than ever. Basically. It looks like on any given race weekend that 8 to 10 cars are going to be within one second of each other in the Midfield. So the margin of error will be smaller than it's ever been for Hoss. There are also a couple of changes with the team that are worth watching in 2019 grow John's new race engineer is Dominic Haynes who worked as romain's performance engineer for 2016 kmag will be working with Gary Gannon who was grow John's race engineer since hostas entry in 2016 the swap up happened because Really are no salvi departed as K mags race engineer after three years with Hoss salvy actually worked for her Ferrari and was on loan from Ferrari for three years as part of their power unit Supply agreement. So the change wasn't made out of anything bad. It was just made more of a contract ended and they had to fill the role. But for those who don't know the race engineer is the person who talks to the driver during the races and qualifying and it's extremely important to have that communication between them be airtight. So I highly suggest if you don't you subscribe to F1 TV and during the erase and or post-race watch the drivers feeds from their cars and you can hear the radio communication with their Engineers. It sounds like thus far through the practices and qualifying for Australia that Dominic Haynes and Romain grosjean are on the same page and came bag and Gary Gannon are good to go. I specially like listening to Gary Gannon. He just seems like he his wealth of knowledge is just astounding with his experience. And so just again, I highly recommend that I will be taking quotes and sounds clips and future episodes from their own boards to give you a taste of what Talk about but for now just with the turnaround time between qualifying just ending and me recording this episode about an hour later. I don't have time for that and I want to get that's out before the Australian Grand Prix with that said there were some technical issues that I saw during both days of free practice and no born both grosjean and kmag experience radio and car Telemetry communication issues. So basically the race Engineers trying to talk to the driver and the driver can't hear them or they can't hear the driver respond and I was watching live as it happened to both km egg and grow John. And at one point grows on even out of frustration dropped an F-bomb saying the radio is blank. So let's just hope that that's fixed before the start of the race. And as far as I know the radios are actually handled by the FIA to make sure everybody's working on this to same level. So hopefully that's something that Haas Engineers can work with the FIA on to make sure everything's working correctly. So now we get to talk about what really want to talk about performance and actual results. I recording this about an hour after qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. So this is Three o'clock in the morning my time. So bear with me if I sound a little drunk on happiness. So I'm just going to get out of the way qualifying went fantastic for Haas. There were some really really close things that could have made it go another way, but overall they did fantastic. They ended up P5 and P6 grosjean sitting p5k mag sitting P6, which is right where they should be at the Australian Grand Prix because Melbourne is Haas country, baby. I'm going to bring home double points huge double points. I have faith. I did take some notes. It's with the qualifying sessions that I just want to read out here for anybody who missed them and just kind of give a basically an overview of how their sessions went. K-max first lap of q1 was ruined as he was pushed wide on the final turn due to traffic but he made it through with the last second lap finishing P6 grosjean set p v going in the final two minutes of the session and even question his race engineer Dominic Haynes why they were going out for a second lap. Well grosjean listen to Dominic because he ended up p14 after the track got faster and faster as a session went on. I was lucky to squeeze through I was watching on the radio. He sitting in the garage they left it on for whatever reason sitting in the pits. And he says are you sure I don't really understand that. But okay and so thankfully they did send them back out, but he didn't best his time. But he set P 14 which squeezed him through to Q2 and just as an understanding for people who may be new to the sport as the race goes on and as temperatures on the track either heat up or drop and then Mount of rubber on the track goes so does the speeds generally later in a qualifying session is when the Faster times are going to come because the track gets into optimal conditions and you actually saw Red Bull screw this up because Gastly didn't make it out of q1 because they thought their first run was going to be good enough. I just don't see that happening any more with the midfields being so tight. I think you're going to see more and more to run runs for every session of qualifying and that's really hard in q1 were there are 20 cars on the track and only 15 minutes to post your best time. And I guess that's a really good segue to introduce new fans that One two how qualifying works with in F1 Q 1 is the first qualifying session and contains all 20 cars and they have 15 minutes to set their best lap time and the top 15 drivers move on to Q to the bottom. Five drivers are no longer able to qualify and they're starting position is where they were at the end of q1 and then they repeat this process exactly for Q2 Q2 s the top 15 cars set their best lap times within 15 minutes with the bottom five cars not being able to advance to Q3. Re and their starting position being where they were at the end of Q2 and Q3 is the final qualifying session and as 10 cars with 10 minutes to set their best lap times and whatever their order is at. The end of Q3 is their place on the starting grid. It is key to point out that sometimes depending on the race finishing late with in Q3 like p8 P9 P10 may not be as advantageous as finishing P11 or p12. And the reason for this is the top 10 cars have to start the race. With the tires that they qualified on so this means that the top ten drivers are generally qualifying on the softest tires, meaning the tires at last the least amount of laps and depending on the tire strategies of the team for that particular track. They may want to start on the medium or the hard tires, which gives them the ability to run longer in the race before pitting. This is especially crucial on road racing. We're passing is really really difficult Monaco being the biggest example with the new cars being so wide. It's almost impossible to pass in Monaco. So you want to go as long as you can between pit stops to stay out on the track longer that make other people have to pit in an end up behind you. So just keep that in mind, but for the most part the goal for Hoss each and every week is to finish in Q3. So they're starting in the top ten. That means the points the points are awarded to the top 10 cars at the end of the race, but we'll discuss that more in future episodes, but that's kind of want to get that out of the way as we're talking about q1. Now. Let's move on to my cue to notes grosjean ran wide on the same. Turn Kevin did in q1 on his first lap and said P11 after the first run. Well, Kevin. Sitting P6 after strong runs by both drivers in the waning seconds of Q2 grosjean ended up P5 while Kevin lost a spot to his teammate ended up p7 again the goal for Hoss each and every race weekend is for both cars to end up in Q3. So mission accomplished this week for ending up in Q3 and in Q3 after the first run grosjean set P6 while kmag set p7 and both slightly improved their times in the second run and then ended up at one twenty one point eight two six and one twenty two point zero nine 9, respectively, they weren't really Bailando Norse Kimi raikkonen or Sergio Pérez during Q3 with them being clear of the impressive showing by the rookie Norse by point two zero five seconds. So once they made it to Q3, there wasn't really any question that they were going to finish P6 p7 gas leak failing to make it out of q1 basically assured at least one of them a top six start leaving the two Mercedes two Ferraris and One Redbull ahead of them. Also more importantly leaving far more cars behind them. This will hopefully make it easier for them to get through the crucial first few turns. Race for those new to F1 the vast majority of incidents happened during the first several terms of the race. And so you want to get as good a start as you can and get as much space as you can from the rest of the pack as soon as possible with that said Sergio Pérez and Kimi raikkonen are on the row behind Kevin magnussen and Lando Norris and so is going to be really important that Magnuson gets off to a good start because those are two great drivers that could try to make a push which could lead to an incident it within the first couple of turns grosjean should hopefully be okay because he has LeClaire next to him in the Ferrari who should be able to pull away a little bit and then also a rookie landowner force behind him who hopefully has some first race Jitters and doesn't get off to an amazing start to push for Corner one. So all in all as a hoss fan and the Haas teeny can't really ask for a better result than P6 p7. There are six cars on the grid clearly Thatcher to them and they are head of one of those cars and they are ahead of the rest of the pack as well. So that brings us to the final thoughts for this episode The Haas car set up perfectly for Australia. So it's key that both drivers score points this weekend. Last year in Melbourne, the qualified P5 and P6 and they were running P4 and P5 before they had a dual did not finish due to an issue with their pit stops releasing early leaving massive points in the table had they secured those points. They probably finish P4 and the constructors standings and it's key to remember the car will also be this fast on tracks that are more Arrow demanding so they must maximize points on the strongest tracks each and every time out some tracks are built for Speed some are built for Arrow somewhere bolt for a mix between the two this one's built. For Speed and they must maximize on those points as they can with that said the overall outlook for Hassan 2019 looks great when the team is operating on all cylinders, they can definitely lead the mid pack of teams. So they have to focus on eliminating the needless mistakes and finish consistently throughout the season. The real key to F1 is consistency each race. They want to make it to Q3. They then want to finish double points. If they do that more than other mid-level teams than they'll probably finish P for this year. The mid-level teams are going to be as competitive as ever and especially as Both Renault and Sauber gained world-class drivers and Daniel ricciardo and Kimi raikkonen respectively without question Haas is good enough to finish before but the competition is as tough as it's ever been for them. So they could also be as low as p8 for the season which would be a disaster financially speaking and as stated they need to win as many points as possible on tracks were speed is key as that is where their current leg up in the competition with that Superior Ferrari powertrain. We'll know more after the Grand Prix, which is just a few hours away, but for now hopes her highest than they've ever been for Hoss, so Stay tuned next episode before the team heads to Bahrain and we'll discuss the results from Australia Grand Prix. And then we're there go from there. Thank you again for everybody who's tuned into the Haas team podcast. Thank you so much for the folks at the Haas F1 team subreddit. And thanks for everyone who's followed on Twitter Instagram and Facebook again. You can follow ha steam podcast at ha steam podcast on Twitter Instagram and Facebook. And also I employee please go to reddit.com slash are slash Haas F1 team and join in the conversation the excitement about hostas higher than it's ever been. The Netflix series and so please get on the ground floor take part of this ride. I trust you if you get involved with this sport, it's amazing. My heart was pumping during qualifying as Kevin magnussen was trying to make up a good lap in q1 and as grosjean was trying to make up a good lap in Q2. There's no real sport that's like that. Like I'm a die-hard sports fan being from Houston and love the Rockets. I love the Astros. I love the Texans. They're just something about the sport where people's lives are actually on the line every time that just takes it up to it. Different level and so I think you so much for giving the sport a chance and especially I think you forgiving Haas F1 team a chance and this podcast. So before we go I challenge you to do two things tell someone, you know about F1 and about Haas F1 team and tell them they should probably be watching and then tell someone about this podcast and let them know that hopefully this is something that will help them learn about F1 and learn about Haas F1 team and that's all I really ask I do this for you guys to do it for myself and do it for hospice because I love the sport. I love that. And the more of you that reach out to me and get involved and give feedback you motivate me to keep this going. So thank you so very much. As long as Haas keeps fighting. I'll keep making these and hopefully you'll keep listening and until next time guys. Remember to tell Nico hulkenberg Zach my balls because
 Haas F1 Team debuted in the FIA Formula One World Championship in 2016, becoming the first American-led Formula One team since 1986. Founded by industrialist Gene Haas, Haas F1 Team is based in the United States on the same Kannapolis, North Carolina, campus as his championship-winning NASCAR team, Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas currently employees 250 team members across two continents. Key Players at Haas   Gene Haas is an American racing icon and the founder and chairman of the Haas F1 team. In 1983, Gene founded Haas Automation, Inc. - which is now a world leader in machining tools and automation products. Through the years, the success of his company allowed him to fund many of his racing dreams, including being a competitive racer himself. In 2002 he founded Haas CNC Racing, which eventually became the multi-champion winning Stewart-Haas Racing team. Guenther Steiner is team principal of Haas F1 Team, and has over 30 years of motorsports experience. He first joined F1 in 2002 as the managing director of Jaguar Racing. Then in 2005 he was tapped to be the technical operations director of Red Bull Racing, where he managed a team of more than 350 people with a budget of more than $200 million annually. He then went on to form a composites manufacturing and racing development company, before being tasked by Gene Haas to kickstart the Haas's F1 efforts. Romain Grosjean is the 32 year old French driver for the #8 Haas car, who got his first seat in F1 for Renault in 2009. After his short stint with Renault he landed at Lotus in 2012, and has been with Haas since their inaugural season in 2016. After a rough start to the 2018 season, Romain pulled it together to score 37 points for the season, putting him in P14 overall. Kevin Magnussen is the 26 year old Danish driver for the #20 Haas car, who got his first F1 start in 2014 racing for McLaren. Kevin, or K-Mag as fans call him, had a strong showing in 2018, and was in a fight for the "best of the rest" in the constructor's standings before a string of bad luck late in the season cost him his chance at beating out rival Nico Hülkenberg. K-Mag finished P9 for the 2018 season, scoring a Haas F1 Team record, of 56 points. Team Changes for 2019 to Watch   Romain Grosjean’s new engineer is be Dominic Haines, who worked as Romain’s performance engineer from 2016. Kevin Magnussen will be working with Gary Gannon, who was Grosjean’s race engineer since Haas’ entry in 2016. Final Thoughts The Haas car is setup perfectly for Australia, so it is key that both drivers score points this weekend. Last year at Melbourne, they qualified P5 and P6 and they were running P4 and P5 before they had a dual DNF due to an issue with their pitstops releasing early… leaving massive points on the table. The car won't always be this fast on tracks that are more aero demanding, so they must maximize points on the strongest tracks each and every time out. Overall, the outlook for Haas in 2019 looks great. When the team is operating on all cylinders, they can definitely lead the mid-pack of teams - so they have to focus on eliminating needless mistakes, and finish consistently throughout the season. They real key to F1 is consistency. Haas is good enough to finish P4, but the competition is as tough as it's ever been for them, so they could be as low as P8 for the season - which would be a disaster financially speaking. They need to win as many points as possible on tracks where speed is key, as that is where their current leg up is on the competition, with the superior Ferrari powertrain. 