2014-present
- Founder and chairman, Haas F1 Team, the only American team competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship.
- Debut season in 2016 saw the first American Formula One team in 30 years finish eighth in the constructors’ standings with a total of 29 points, the most of any new team in this millennium.
- Scored a best finish of fifth in 2018 constructors’ standings. Scored 93 points, nearly double the amount of points earned in 2017 (47 points).
2009-present
- Co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, a championship-winning NASCAR team.
- Won first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2011 with driver Tony Stewart.
- Won second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2014 with driver Kevin Harvick.
- Won first NASCAR Xfinity Series owners’ championship with No. 00 team in 2018.
2002-2008
- Owner of Haas CNC Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series.
2007
- Builds Windshear in Concord, North Carolina, one of the most advanced automotive wind tunnels in the world.
1999
- Establishes the non-profit Gene Haas Foundation, which supports local, state and international communities through grants to charities, non-profit organizations and other philanthropic foundations.
1997
- Moves Haas Automation into its current location in Oxnard, California.
1987
- Develops the VF-1 for Haas Automation, the company’s first vertical machining center (VMC).
1983
- Founds Haas Automation, which will become the largest machine tool manufacturer in North America with annual sales eclipsing $1 billion.
1978
- Founds Proturn Engineering and develops the Haas 5C – a fully programmable 5C collet indexer – which was the machine tool industry’s first device to automatically re-position parts accurately with the press of a button.
1975
- Graduates from California State University, Northridge with a Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting and finance.
