Haas and Cadillac F1 cars break cover - our reaction
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Haas became the latest F1 team to release imagery of its 2026 F1 challenger on Monday, days after F1’s newest team, Cadillac, ran its first ever car at Silverstone - and on this episode of The Race F1 Podcast we discuss both.
Scott Mitchell-Malm joins Edd Straw to chat about what we’ve learned about each team, including what the prominent Toyota branding on the Haas means and whether Cadillac's successful early debut says anything about its prospects for the coming campaign.
After that, former F1 technical director Gary Anderson joins Edd to discuss some of the technical details on display in the renders Haas released, and how what can be seen on the car compares to what could be gleaned on the similarly Ferrari-powered Cadillac.
Get your 7-day free trial to The Race Members' Club on Patreon today and enjoy bonus F1 podcasts and ad-free listening.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The Races |
| 0:04.0 | The race is on, and has become the latest scene to launch its 2026 car in the form of five renders following hot on the heels of Cadillac that ran on track for |
| 0:21.4 | the first time on Friday. But why is Hass looking ever more Toyota-esque? And does F-1's 11th |
| 0:27.0 | team look the part? I'm Edgshaw and joining me to tell all is Scott Mitchell Mown. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, Scott, we're going to hear from Gary Anderson later in this podcast on the technical side of the HASS and the Cadillac. |
| 0:39.3 | But let's start off by talking about HASS. |
| 0:42.8 | Officially, it's now called TGR HASSF1 scene. |
| 0:47.1 | The prefix stands for Toyota Cazzing. |
| 0:49.6 | A lot of interest in that. |
| 0:50.8 | Is this a sign, a signifier that Hasse is destined to become some kind of |
| 0:55.8 | Toyota team down the line? What's the real story there? Well, Hasse team principal |
| 1:00.8 | Ayokamatsu will be completely understanding of you asking that question, Ed, because he actually |
| 1:05.5 | said in December last year, which was when the TGR Hasse title partnership was first announced, |
| 1:12.2 | that a lot of people have got excited about this and want to read it as, is Toyota coming back into F1? |
| 1:16.2 | Is it going to be the Toyota Works team? And they're going to build an engine, all of that. |
| 1:19.3 | They've always insisted that's not the case. But it's a slightly complicated situation, just purely |
| 1:26.9 | in terms of the optics and the visuals around it, |
| 1:28.9 | because it is, it's TGR Hass in name, but the most prominent Toyota branding on the car is GR initials, |
| 1:36.6 | and the sticker on the car says Toyota Gazoo Racing. |
| 1:39.9 | So there's lots of different kind of identities floating around here. |
| 1:44.2 | What it boils down to is it's an enhancement of the Toyota technical partnership that |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Race Media Ltd, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Race Media Ltd and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.