The Monaco Grand Prix was stingy with satisfactions for the Haas, who did not take home points in the Principality and, after Jeddah, finds himself again having to deal with a single-seater, that of Mick Schumacher, half-destroyed after the accident at the Variante delle Piscine. Kevin Magnussen, on the other hand, had to retire due to a problem attributable to the power unit, in a weekend that once again recorded problems at the MGU-K of the Ferrari power unit in free practice on Friday with both Valtteri Bottas and Schumacher.
After fifth place in Bahrain, Haas struggled to replicate other exploits and points in Constructor rankingi are still 15 from the Imola Grand Prix concluded by Kevin Magnussen in ninth position. In Barcelona the conditions for a Sunday full of points were all there, but the Dane exaggerated at the start in attacking Lewis Hamilton, remedying a wheel and ending up in the gravel.
The performance of the VF-22, although it has not yet been updated, still let filter optimism for the next stages. Kevin Magnussen underlined that he had found a different Haas than the one he had left at the end of 2020. The logistical steps forward are among the main evolutions from which the team led by Gunther Steiner is benefiting: “In 2021, the season in which I was not part of the team, the ‘move’ to Maranello took place in the new headquarters dedicated to Haas – Magnussen’s words – in previous seasons we were scattered all over the world, with two offices in Italy, one in Great Britain and one in the United States. Now, however, the group has grown in terms of personnel and it’s all in Maranello. It is certainly better to be able to exchange a few words between technicians passing from one desk to another instead of having to contact another office located in another country “.
“The benefits are also seen in the performance of the machine – concluded Magnussen – for this reason I believe that Haas is destined to have a more than promising future“. The former McLaren and Renault is under contract with the US team also in 2023.
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