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MoneyGram Haas F1 Group has appointed Ayao Komatsu as its new Group Principal, with Guenther Steiner departing the group with quick impact, having led its operations for the previous decade. Komatsu, promoted from his function as Director of Engineering, has been with the group 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 components of the enterprise as Group Principal. 

Komatsu will take duty for the group’s general technique and finally on-track efficiency, with a quick to maximise the group’s potential by worker empowerment, structural course of, and effectivity. 

To additional strengthen group operations off-track and in help 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 function is anticipated 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 begin by extending my due to Guenther Steiner for all his exhausting work over the previous decade, and I want him properly for the longer term. Transferring ahead as a company, we clearly want to enhance our on-track performances. In appointing Ayao Komatsu as Group Principal, we essentially have engineering on the coronary heart of our administration.

We’ve got had some successes, however we should persistently ship outcomes that assist us attain our broader objectives as a company. We have to be environment friendly with our assets, however bettering our design and engineering functionality is important to our success as a group. I’m trying 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, acknowledged:

I’m naturally very excited to have the chance to be Group Principal at MoneyGram Haas F1 Group. Having been with the group since its monitor debut again in 2016, I’m clearly passionately invested in its success in System 1. I’m trying 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 just lately, which has been irritating for us all. We’ve got improbable help from Gene and our varied companions, and we need to mirror their enthusiasm with an improved on-track product. We’ve got an amazing group of individuals throughout Kannapolis, Banbury and Maranello, and collectively, I do know we are able to obtain the form 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 group since 1986. Based by industrialist Gene Haas, MoneyGram Haas F1 Group is predicated in america on the identical Kannapolis, North Carolina, campus as his championship-winning NASCAR group, Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas based Haas Automation, North America’s largest CNC machine instrument builder and chairman of MoneyGram Haas F1 Group.