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(Motorsport-Complete.com) – Upside down world at Haas: Warfare last week, Kevin Magnussen, the significantly faster driver, dominated yesterday’s qualifying Romain Grosjean the team-internal duel. The Frenchman took seven tenths of a second from his teammate in Q1 and is starting the race today from the starting position 13. “We are also a little surprised why this has turned so drastically,” says team boss Günther Steiner.

Romain Grosjean

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For Grosjean, the secret is that he has changed his driving style with the car ( Formula 1 2020 live in the ticker ). If he had run over it the week before, “this time I tried to stay in the working window of the car’s aero characteristics – and it worked.”

Grosjean usually can’t do this in some areas pushing, as is usual with his driving style, because the characteristics of the car are not that stubborn. “But this time I was able to bypass the problems and get a good feeling.” That reminded him “of the good old days with Lotus,” he says. “I knew exactly who I would have turned into, and could push the car.”

Became as soon as that means? Grosjean takes a step back at the corner entrance. “I love to attack the corner entrance as hard as possible. It was always my driving style to aim for the apex at the braking point and take as much brake and paddle as possible with me,” he says. At Haas, however, it has been complicated in recent years because the car does not adopt this style.

Yesterday it worked for Grosjean, who owns it alongside Singapore 2018 and Bahrain 2016 is one of the three Haas qualifying sessions that were best for him.

Magnussen struggles with the car

Anders Kevin Magnussen. This time the Dane got no feeling for the car at all and had to be 17. stop after Q1. “A strange weekend for me,” he puzzles. “I was just very far away all weekend.”

Haas had after his accident last Sunday screwed a new underbody to the car, but suddenly it stopped working. “It’s the same underbody, just an old one,” says Magnussen. “And suddenly we have all these problems with the stability, and the united statesenorm lack of grip.”

The crew then screwed a new underbody onto the car on Friday. “But that made no difference either,” said Steiner. “We thought it would be.”

“We can’t really say why it is,” adds Magnussen. “That is interesting and of course frustrating because the car worked so well last weekend. Same route, same driver, but seven tenths of a second slower or one second.”


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