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5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon during the 2025 season following his switch from Alp🔯ine.

The 33-year-old German’s promotion from performance engineer marks a landmark𓄧💖 moment for F1.

"It's not like I chose Laura because she's female. W🔯e just don't car𒊎e - nationality, gender, doesn't matter,” Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu said.

"What matters is work, how you fit into the t♛eam, how you can maximise the performance - and Ronan and Laura I believe happen to be the best choice."

Meanwhile, Ronan O’Hare will be F1 rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oliver Bearman’s race 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 Raciꦬng Bulls and Mercedes.

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

As part of the major alteration to race team staff o🧔rganisation ahead of the new campaign, Haas have also brought in ex-Toyota, Sauber and Marussia engineer Francesco Nenci as chief race engineer.

Nenci most recently worked at Audi’s Dakar Rally progrꦓamme.

This position was ꧋previously held by Komatsu before 🦩he replaced Guenther Steiner as team principal last year.

Mark Lowe has been promoted from operations team manꦆager to sporting director.

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

"Towards the end of the year we had the fifth-fa🍸stest car. But in t๊erms 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 tracksid🏅e operation. So reaღlly needed a step-up.”

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