The American outfit became the first team to unveil a glimpse of F1’s new era on Friday ཧm🐟orning when it dropped a series of render images to present its 2022 colours that will adorn its new VF-22 challenger. 

Haas’ latest livery sees the team ret♈ain its Russian-themed colour scheme with a predomina🅘ntely white base, and red and blue stripes.  

In recent years, it has become traditional for Haas to release imagery of🀅 its new livery before presenting its full car in a physical launch at the start of pre-season testing. 

It will be a similar story up and down the grid, with teams keen not to give away any of their design secrets before the action gets underway at the opening three-day shakedown test in Barcelona on February🐠 23-25.

Haas is looking to move up th꧃e pecking order this year after fi♛nishing rock-bottom with the slowest car in 2021, having elected not to develop its VF21 at all in order to focus its resources on this season’s regulation shake-up. 

“It’s exciting to be at the point where we know the VF-22 will be on-track shortly,” said Haas team principal Guenther Steiner. “We all know what the team is capa💧ble of, we’ve proved that in 𓆏the past, and with this new car – born out of a completely new set of regulations and with our new design team in place, I’m confident we can showcase once again that we can compete on weekends.

"It’s been a tremendous effort by everyone involved and now comes the fun part of getting the new car to the circuit and dialing in all the elements. Last seaso☂n was a long one but I’m confident that 2022 will see us back in the mix with the VF-22.” 

Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin once again form Haas’ line-up and will be hoping the VF-22 is enough of an improvement to enab💯le them to challenge for points during their s🐻econd season in F1 after enduring a tough rookie year.

Haas was the only team that failed to score points in 2021, with Schumacher recor﷽ding a season-best result of 12th at the Hungarian Grand Prix. 

Red Bull w🌌ill be the next team to reveal its 2022 car - the RB18 - on Wednesday, marking the first of three launches in successive days with Aston Martin and McLaren following on Thursday and Friday respectiv♉ely. 

AlphaTauri, Ferrari, Mercedes and Alpine will al💙l present their cars before pre-season testing, while Alfa Romeo has taken the unusual appro🗹ach of deciding not to formally launch its 2022 car until after the first test. 

Instead, the Swiss-based squad will run its C4💫2 in a special interim livery for the Barcelona test.&nb✃sp;

Williams is ജthe only team yet to confirm its launch plans for the FW44.