Haas’ finest and worst moments from 2025 to date and driver head-to-heads

After a decent P7 end in 2024, Haas at the moment maintain ninth place within the Groups’ Championship on the halfway level of 2025, a season wherein the staff have fielded an all-new line-up in Esteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman. Amid a good midfield battle, can the American outfit discover extra consistency in the course of the the rest of the marketing campaign? Let’s check out their half time period report…

Finest end

Esteban Ocon – fifth in China

Following a difficult weekend on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix – wherein the staff certified in the back of the grid – Haas bounced again in fashion one week later in China, with the squad scoring their first double factors results of the 12 months.

Ocon and Bearman initially crossed the road in seventh and tenth respectively however have been later promoted by two positions every following the disqualifications of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, handing them a P5 and a P8.

Whereas different factors finishes have adopted, the squad have but to match that fifth place achieved by Ocon, having struggled to discover a constant stage of efficiency in the course of the first half of the season.

Qualifying head-to-head

Ocon 8-6 Bearman

The extra skilled Ocon has overwhelmed his rookie staff mate in Qualifying on eight events, which included a season-best P8 on the grid at Monaco.

This place was initially matched by Bearman at Silverstone, however a 10-place penalty for an FP3 crimson flag infringement dropped the Briton right down to P18, a punishment that he additionally acquired in the course of the Monaco weekend.

Race head-to-head

Ocon 9-5 Bearman

Ocon has additionally simply had the sting over Bearman in race trim, the Frenchman crossing the road forward at 9 Grands Prix. Bearman, nevertheless, confronted barely worse luck by way of retirements, having twice recorded a DNF owing to a mechanical concern compared to just one non-finish for Ocon.

Of the staff’s present complete of 35 factors, Ocon is liable for 27, placing him in tenth place of the Drivers’ Standings, whereas Bearman has scored eight factors in nineteenth place.

Finest second

That aforementioned double factors haul in Shanghai was a promising second for the staff, with it highlighting that there was not solely tempo to unlock within the VF-25 however that they might additionally grasp strong technique calls, after an alternate plan for Bearman noticed him climb up from P17 on the grid.

Given the troubles of Australia, Ocon hailed the end result one week on as an “superb turnaround”, whereas Bearman admitted that he felt “actually proud” of the staff for taking such a step forwards.

Different highlights in the course of the season included additional double factors finishes, together with at Spherical 4 in Bahrain in addition to within the Dash on the Belgian Grand Prix extra not too long ago.

Worst second

Haas skilled a difficult run of point-less races between Saudi Arabia and Imola, whereas the squad additionally endured a difficult second within the British Grand Prix when Ocon and Bearman collided, on a day the place Ocon felt that each drivers “deserved to be within the factors”.

However maybe their hardest second of all was going through such a nightmarish begin straight out of the blocks in Australia, with Bearman acknowledging that not being within the battle for factors had come as an “unwelcome shock”.

It had additionally proved to be a shock to Crew Principal Ayao Komatsu, who later conceded that he “felt sick” at how far off the tempo the automotive was, resulting in a concerted effort to repair the difficulty as rapidly as potential.

Going ahead

Whereas there have been optimistic moments for Haas, their type has been considerably unpredictable from one weekend to the subsequent – and, given how high quality the margins are within the midfield, creating extra consistency can be a key goal going forwards if they’re to make beneficial properties from P9.

As Ocon summarised forward of the summer season break: “Taking a look at this primary half, I believe there are some positives, positively. We’ve scored an honest quantity of factors, however we aren’t constant sufficient and the place we need to be each single time. We’ll give it the whole lot for the subsequent half.

“In case you have a look at Spa, we had mega efficiency, it was an important weekend. We aren’t there each single weekend, and that is the place we have to get the consistency collectively. We’re engaged on that. I’ve full belief behind the staff and it’s removed from over this season.”

Komatsu has said that the staff’s long-term aim is to achieve the rostrum, which might counsel that – within the short-term – they are going to be hoping to maneuver nearer to the top of the midfield and take additional steps in the direction of realising that ambition.