Gene Haas has confirmed reports his new formula one team will not debut until 2016.<\/p>\n
Recently, it was reported the Nascar team co-owner’s ‘plan A’ for his newly-granted F1 entry Haas Formula was to join the grid next season.<\/p>\n
But he confirmed this week to F1 business journalist Christian Sylt: “From a personal standpoint, I really would have liked to go racing in 2015.\u00a0 It was hard to sit there and say no.<\/p>\n
“Trust me, I really wanted to go,” Haas told Forbes.\u00a0 “The first year is always going to be going to be tough but I think that by waiting a year we will probably only have six months of it being really tough because we will be better prepared.”<\/p>\n
Sylt said the extra year will give Haas time to set up its design and aerodynamics department in North Carolina, and find a satellite headquarters in the south of England.<\/p>\n
“The plan is absolutely to launch in 2016 and we are fully committed to that,” said Haas.\u00a0 “I don’t think there is any doubt about that whatsoever.”<\/p>\n
Initially, the plan was to have the first Haas car built by the Italian manufacturer Dallara, while leaning heavily on Ferrari for technical support.<\/p>\n
Haas said: “I think (by debuting in 2016) we will be a better team because we will have more time to plan and we will be able to do a lot more engineering in Kannapolis.<\/p>\n
“We decided that it would be better to be 100 per cent sure we are going to make the race rather than scramble and not make the race,” he added.<\/p>\n
Haas will, however, be trackside this weekend in Montreal, as the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve hosts the Canadian grand prix.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of logistics that we are going to learn and this weekend we are going to be asking a lot of questions like ‘How do you get that box from here to there?'” he said.<\/p>\n
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