Haas driver Kevin Magnussen states the staff will not have any “unrealistic optimism” heading into the 2024 year when compared with some former several years.

About the final a few seasons, Haas have completed tenth and final in the constructors’ championship 2 times, in 2021 and 2023, and eighth in 2022.

Lengthy-time staff principal Guenther Steiner’s deal was not renewed by staff proprietor Gene Haas in January. Ayao Komatsu has taken in excess of, and Magnussen states anticipations for the staff are “being managed really perfectly this yr.”

“I consider in some several years there has been some unrealistic optimism heading into seasons and I have been impacted by it as perfectly,” Magnussen stated.

“Certainly, Ayao is pretty crystal clear that he does not consider we have moved out of final year’s posture nonetheless but he’s crystal clear in that he sees the enhancement trajectory seeking a good deal more powerful, so he’s essentially optimistic that we can go ahead via this yr.

“The complete discipline is so shut with each other and I consider final yr we fully ran into a wall in conditions of enhancement. We could not seriously split that barrier until finally we shifted the thought, and this yr is seeking a good deal superior. Anticipations are small to commence with but large for the year as a entire.”

Magnussen thinks Komatsu’s marketing to staff principal will guide to a transform of lifestyle inside of the staff.

“I have a superior connection with Ayao,” Magnussen stated. “He’s been with the staff for 8 several years, due to the fact the starting in 2016, so I have labored pretty carefully with him at any time due to the fact I arrived to Haas in 2017.

“It’s been a huge transform in our staff, of class, turning into staff principal. Ayao is an engineer, and he has a sensible amount of money of engineering knowledge with a System one staff, and obtaining into that frame of mind at the helm of the staff is heading to be pretty appealing. I consider it is heading to transform the dynamic and conversation throughout the entire organisation.”

Group mate Nico Hulkenberg, who drove the team’s new VF-24 for the to start with time at a shakedown at Silverstone on Wednesday, would like to see the staff make a action up from their disappointing 2023 year, when troubles with abnormal tyre don in excess of the class of stints ruined quite a few races.

“Hopefully, the motor vehicle will be a little bit superior with the constraints that we uncovered final yr,” stated Hulkenberg. “You in a natural way want to do superior than the former yr, that is typical.

“We did have a hard yr final yr, so we certainly want to boost – particularly the race weak point we experienced final yr – that was a thing we want to and want to get on prime of. I have found the new motor vehicle, it does seem superior, it is an evolution.

“We managed to clear up some matters but at this issue of the yr, like just about every yr, you are a little bit in the darkish as to in which you are and in which you are heading to rank, so we just want to maintain our heads down, maintain performing really hard, and continue to be targeted.”

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