Haas went through several lean years leading up to 2021, and decided to focus fully on exploiting the following year's rules reset. It signed the well-funded but inexperienced duo of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher to get it through a compromised 2021 season.
While Mazepin was replaced by Magnussen on the eve of the 2022 campaign due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Haas has now made the conscious move of bringing in Nico Hulkenberg alongside him, shifting from two rookies to a pair of extremely experienced drivers in the space of two seasons.
