Haas budget cap report: Komatsu cites funding gap

Autosport and Motorsport.com reported Ayao Komatsu said Haas needs more funding to reach Formula 1’s 2026 budget cap of $215m.

Autosport and Motorsport.com reported that Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu said the team is operating at a disadvantage against better-funded Formula 1 rivals. Both outlets said Komatsu described Haas as needing more funding to reach the 2026 budget cap, which they reported is set at $215 million excluding salary-related items.

Those remarks are not independently confirmed in the supplied information, so they should be treated here as reported comments rather than an official team statement. The two reports said the issue for Haas is not the cap level itself, but finding the funding required to spend up to it.

Haas was founded in 2014 and has raced in Formula 1 since 2016. Across 11 seasons, the American team has yet to record a race win or a constructors’ championship title.