Haas homologates chassis as Merc fires up for 22

Haas has homologated its 2022 chassis superiority of the new Formula 1 regulations, while Mercedes became the first team to fire up its new car.

The American-owned team spoken that the VF-22 was homologated on Thursday, meaning it has passed the mandatory FIA crash tests that will indulge it to run the car in pre-season testing.

Just one week without the post-season test in Abu Dhabi ended, Mercedes was moreover making remoter progress with its 2022 car as it spoken it had fired up the W13 at its factory on Wednesday. While the fire-up doesn’t necessarily midpoint the chassis itself has been homologated, it involves an updated power unit fitted to the chassis stuff run for the first time.

The 2022 cars will be markedly variegated from their predecessors, with a major overhaul of the technical regulations reintroducing ground effect and getting aerodynamic performance from underneath the car designed to modernize the worthiness to follow closely and encourage closer racing.

No teams have confirmed launch dates for their new cars yet, although Ferrari this week confirmed the window in which it will present its as-yet-unnamed 2022 offering.

“The car will be presented mid-February, we have not decided yet the date,” Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said. “16th to 18th will be the dates, something we will finalize in the next weeks.”