Haas surprised everyone on Thursday by releasing official renders of their 2020 car and livery, a week and a half before it expected to be revealed. The car will be known as the VF-20 and the Amercian team will hope that this will be the car to lift the team back towards the sharp end of the grid after finishing ninth in the Constructor’s Championship last season.

The most notable change on the car is the livery, with the black and gold of ex-sponsor Rich Energy, being replaced with the grey, red and black of Haas Automation, which will be familiar to F1 fans.

Team Owner Gene Haas, said, “It’s important to me that we’re back in the mix and consistently scoring points. We certainly have the capability and we’ve proved as an organisation we can do it.”

Team Principal Guenther Steiner said, “With the regulations remaining stable into this season, it’s allowed us to improve our understanding of the car and to scrutinise ourselves more in order to find solutions and applications to channel into the design of the VF-20.”

“Last year was definitely a setback, one I would never have asked for, but you learn from such situations – we all have. Everybody at the team was forced to look at themselves and understand what they can do better.”

I am not the most technically minded of reporters, so here is a link to ‘The Race’ in which Gary Anderson gives a detail look at the technical changes with the car.

Gary Anderson’s verdict on the 2020 Haas