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Will Haas's Ferrari-inspired design cure its woes?

Haas kicked off Formula 1's launch season early by revealing images of its 2020 car - back in Haas Automation colours - on Thursday. The VF-20 takes obvious styling cues from Ferrari, but what else does it tell us about this year's likely design trends?

Jake Boxall-Legge Feb 6, 2020, 2:31 PM

Is it back to business as usual for Haas? After 2019's comedy of errors, in which everything that could go wrong did for Gene Haas's eponymous outfit, 2020 should be the result of learning from all of last season's mistakes.

Most significantly, the return of the typical grey-and-red colours should hopefully take the bitter aftertaste away from the Rich Energy debacle - but a simple lick of paint isn't going to rectify the performance woes that the recalcitrant VF-19 lumbered the driver pairing of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen with.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.