Haas F1 Team Inks 5-Year Technical Partnership With Mphasis

As the Moneygram Haas F1 Team looks to continue to make improvements in 2025, the organization has inked a five-year technical partnership with a major tech firm.

Haas F1 started 2025 with a new deal with Mphasis, a global IT firm, enabling the American team to integrate AI, real-time analytics and predictive modeling for race day operations and strategy.

“We’ve been building out a whole tech business for the last many years and one of the biggest intersections of technology is adoption by some of the sports leagues like Formula 1,” Mphasis CEO Nitin Rakesh said. “This is, as I call it, a computer on super fast wheels. It’s a combination of software, aerodynamics and everything that you can think of in leading edge tech. We ended up spending some time [with Haas] and over, the summer of ’24, we hammered out a nice partnership that started January this year.

“We’ree still in the early stages of figuring this out, it’s a five year commitment. So we are still in first two weeks of that commitment, so to speak, right. If you think about the use of high performance computers, think of this as combination of infrastructure use of cloud technology and how can we use real-time analytics combined that there’s obviously a pretty cutting edge infrastructure available.”

Haas F1 Team, under the leadership of new team principal Ayao Komatsu, saw major improvements on and off the track in 2024. The team finished seventh in the constructor standings, with 58 points.

In 2025, Haas has a brand-new driver lineup. Esteban Ocon and rookie Oliver Bearman will drive the American team’s two cars. Bearman made three starts in 2024, including one for Ferrari and two for Haas.

The Mphasis relationship, Komatsu explained, should help their performance in 2025.

“I think it’s really exciting to have this new technical partnership,” Komatsu said. “We are very, very early days, so we still exploring what we can do together. So some of the question you said, what was it? How has benefited from the partnership or we haven’t benefited anything yet because we need to find out where we can work together. But really excited to have this partner on board to push the performance together.”

The partnership will have an emphasize on evaluating data to determine the best strategy for Haas F1 Team, with a combination of cloud and data, along with fan engagement and experience.

“We are thinking of an experimental area around things, such as camera, vision, computer vision,” Rakesh said. “How do you blend that with the pick stop strategy or the practice strategy? How do you bring all of that together because that does create some form of a performance improvement. Can we blend tech with on-track performance?

“Many of these technologies exist. Some teams have a better handle on it. It’s about a millimeter of a difference can make or break the day of the session. It’s really a combination of bringing the world-class experience to fans and in the end improving it on track performance.”

The 2025 Formula 1 season begins on March 16 with the Australian Grand Prix.