Haas reveals 2025 F1 look as new car spotted at Silverstone

The first images of Haas's 2025 Formula 1 car have leaked on social media after Esteban Ocon conducted a private shakedown filming day at Silverstone on Sunday.

At the same time as the American-owned squad released official pictures of its new-look race suits for 2025, spy shots taken at Silverstone showed off its new VF-25 for the first time.

This comes ahead of the official reveal of its new livery at the F1 season launch event at the O2 in London on Tuesday - when proper images of its new car are also expected to be made public.

While the spy shots, taken from the Hilton Hotel opposite the pits at Silverstone, are not super close up, they do point to the car being a step on from its 2024 challenger.

There are several obvious differences - including tweaked sidepod inlets, which suggest changes to the radiator configuration, more notable engine cover cannons and an interesting cut out arrangement between the rear wing endplate and main plane.

The photos that appeared on Sunday do not offer a clear view of the suspension elements, but it is already known what Haas is doing on this front.

Through its relationship with Ferrari, Haas is taking the Scuderia's 2025 gearbox and rear suspension, but has decided against going with Ferrari's reconfigured pullrod concept at the front.

Speaking about that decision recently, team principal Ayao Komatsu said Haas designers felt sticking with a layout the team had experience of would be better in terms of being more advanced in understanding the aerodynamic impact of airflow in this area.

"That's a significant moment in my mind, because so far in nine seasons of Haas F1 team, we always went with Ferrari's latest supply, and not because that was the informed choice, because that was the safest and easiest choice," said Komatsu.

"It's not like this year we wanted to make a point, but Andrea [De Zordo, technical director] and Davide [Paganelli, head of aero] and Damien [Brayshaw, performance director], came to me and said [this was the right decision].

"They've been talking about this for the last few seasons, but we never actually did carry over the front suspension.

“But when they looked at it properly in terms of, 'OK, if we buy Ferrari's '25 front suspension, when are we going to have the information available and what does that mean in terms of the aero hit?' because you have to take a hit first, you have to recover.

"So comparing that and how much potential that unlocks against [the benefit if you] don't stop development because we carry over the front suspension.

"They've done the proper study and the conclusion was we should do a carryover. Then we had the confidence to then go for that decision, whereas before we didn't."