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Originally Posted by Zeke
Hass construction is based in Maranello. Dallara has built from most of the car to many parts of the car since 2016. Meanwhile half the engineers that work for Haas came from Ferrari.
The links of Dallara and Ferrari to Hass are indisputable. So I ask again, what chassis is Andretti/GM going to debut with?
So Richard says Toyota is in the mix. Makes sense to me as someone who knows nothing about this except Andretti is not going alone in this with a new car starting with a blank sheet of paper and a rule book.
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Yes, I understand that Dallara builds the Haas chassis. They are technically a part of the greater Haas team, or in partnership with them. This is a bespoke chassis, built just for Haas. No one else can run it. Teams are required to build their own chassis, which can be done under contract or in partnership, but it has to be unique to the team. There are no "spec" chassis in F1.
Most of the top F1 teams have "junior" teams with whom they work very closely. Sometimes a bit too closely, as there are well defined boundaries for sharing information. Each team only gets to field two cars, which kind of limits data acquisition, unless they can finagle four cars through this "junior team" approach. The FIA have long since been on to this, however, so data sharing and sharing of engineering talent with junior teams is very closely watched. And yes, Ferrari - and every other power unit supplier - works very closely with "customer" teams, which can be teams other than "junior" teams.
Those manufacturers that produce power units share them with a number of "customer" teams. There is no requirement for each team to build their own power unit, just the chassis. They provide technical support to those customer teams.
So, while the connection between Haas and Ferrari is there, they very much remain their own independent team. They have to build their own car, per the technical regulations, but that doesn't mean they cannot contract that out.