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Haas on target for first pre-season test

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New Formula One team Haas is on target to hit the track at the first test of 2016 on February 22.

Haas will join the grid next year with a car based around as many Ferrari components as is allowed under the regulations. In the past, new teams have struggled to be ready on time but team principal Gunther Steiner is confident his outfit will be on track during the first day of testing in Barcelona in February.

"We are only 10 weeks away from testing, but all the work is going to plan so we are pretty happy," Steiner told Sky Sports. "Everything seems to come together. Our pit equipment is almost all here now and we've done a garage check so when we set up in Barcelona we will be right.

"Obviously, the car is the last thing you bring in and the production planning is going well and we will start to produce a car in mid-January. We will do the crash test at the beginning of January and then start to put one together to get ready for February 22 in Barcelona."

Steiner confirmed the car would be launched at the first test rather than at a standalone event before.

"[We'll launch] in Barcelona. We have no spare time to do anything before so we will roll it out hopefully the day before the testing starts on the Sunday," he added.