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Haas F1 Team VF-20

Tech insight: Will Haas's Ferrari-inspired design cure its woes?

Haas kicked off Formula 1's launch season early by revealing images of its 2020 car - back in Haas Automation colours - on Thursday. The VF-20 takes obvious styling cues from Ferrari, but what else does it tell us about this year's likely design trends?

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Is it back to business as usual for Haas? After 2019's comedy of errors, in which everything that could go wrong did for Gene Haas's eponymous outfit, 2020 should be the result of learning from all of last season's mistakes.

Most significantly, the return of the typical grey-and-red colours should hopefully take the bitter aftertaste away from the Rich Energy debacle - but a simple lick of paint isn't going to rectify the performance woes that the recalcitrant VF-19 lumbered the driver pairing of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen with.

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