Haas System 1 group principal Ayao Komatsu has made an sudden look at Coventry Metropolis Soccer Membership.
Komatsu, who took the reins on the American F1 group forward of the 2024 season, took benefit of a uncommon hole within the race calendar after the Japanese Grand Prix to return to his outdated stomping floor.
Talking beforehand to Autosport about his ardour for soccer, the Japanese group chief defined how his connection to Coventry Metropolis Soccer Membership first blossomed when he lived within the metropolis and began supporting the membership together with the locals.
“I used to reside in Coventry, and everybody round me supported Coventry Metropolis Soccer Membership, so I began supporting them too!” he mentioned on the time.
“I am fairly positive I used to be the one Japanese individual supporting the membership for a very long time. However final yr, we had our first Japanese participant ever within the historical past of Metropolis, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, and that is modified. After I was in Tokyo final yr earlier than the Japanese Grand Prix, I even noticed a random Japanese man sporting a sky-blue Coventry Metropolis prime!”
Throughout his go to to the soccer membership, Komatsu took half in coaching and spoke to Sky Sports activities F1 concerning the World Cup. “Oh, it is superb. That’d be good if Tats is within the group, proper? I imply, the way in which Tats is performing, his work fee right here is unbelievable. His psychological resilience, I’ve an enormous respect for.
“You’ll be able to really feel it, by coming to coaching classes like this, the place he is built-in into the group, how he is revered, after which the icing on the cake can be him getting chosen for Japan, proper?”
Haas has had a powerful begin to the 2026 season. It at the moment sits fourth within the constructors’ standings after three rounds, with 18 factors, behind leaders Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren.
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