Haas have appointed Laura Muller as the first female race engineer in F1.

Muller, who joined the American outfit in 2022, will work with new signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon during the 2025 season following 🅺his swiꦯtch from Alpine.

The 33-year-old German’s promotion from perfoℱrmance engineer marks a landmark moment for F1.

"It's not like I choseജ Laura because she's female. We just don't care - nationality, gender, doesn't matter,” Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu said.

"What matters is work, how you fit into the team, how you can maximise the performance - and Ronan and Laura I believe ha☂ppen to be the best choice."

Meanwhile, Ronan O’Hare will be F1 rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oliver Bearman’s rac🌺e engineer. O’Hare previously worked as a performance engineer for Williams and the NIO Formula E team, as well as carrying out engineering roles for Racing Bulls and Mercedes.

Haas’ first head of race strategy will also be a woman - Carine Cridelich, who will start the positi♊on on 1 March after leaving her current post at Racing Bulls.

As part of the major alteration to race team staff organisation ahead of the new campaign, Haas hav🌄e also brought in ex-Toyota, Sauber and Marussia engineer Francesco Nenci as chief race engineer.

Nenci most recently w൩orked at Audi’s Dakar Rally pr🐽ogramme.

T🐻his position was previously held by Komatsu before he replaced Guenther Steiner as team principal last year.

Mark Lowe has been prom♎oted from operations team manager to sporting director.

Explaining the decision to shake-up Haas’ team, Komatsu said: “I felt the trackside team was one of the weakest areas last year, and the moreꦗ the car became competitive that exposed it more.

"To♒wards the end of the year we had the fifth-fastest car. But in terms of execution, we should have finished P6 [in the constructors' championship] but we didn’t.

"Part of it was we left too many points on the table from the trackside operation. So rea𓂃lly needed a step-up.”

Haas finished seventh in last year’s constructors’ ch𒅌ampionship, scoring 58 points. They had looked on course to take sixth 𝕴before a late-season surge from Alpine.