MELBOURNE (Ekstra Bladet): Bravissimo!
Haas’ head-aerodynamiker Ben Agathangelou was a big smile, as he congratulated Kevin Magnussen in sixth place in the Australian Grand Prix, shortly before the 26-year-old dane raced toward the airport.
Agathangelou and his team again from the start of the season built a really, really solid-Haas racing. As in Australia breathed the Ferrari in the neck, flirted with Red Bull during qualifying and topped the midterfeltet on raw speed. Beyond luck and chance.
– I can’t say what we are the rest of the season. But this week yes. We were ‘best of the rest’, says Kevin Magnussen.
Titelsponsoren Rich energy’s chief Williams Storey hotel with his entourage celebrated the promising start to the season for the whole weekend in front of the Haas team’s camp in the paddock. They were still in a good mood Sunday evening, while many of the team members takes off from Melbourne with a poor taste in the mouth on top of another race spoiled by a maria pit-stop.
A sublime race from Kevin Magnussen has not completely remedied it.
– We leave here with mixed feelings, as you can imagine, said Günther Steiner to the Extra Leaf before departure.
– Let’s start with the good: We are competitive. Kevin drove a great race. The car is good. We qualified as a six and seven and come from here with a sixth place finish and eight points. Compared with the zero points last year.
Photo: Haas F1 Team
– We are now number four in the WORLD cup-the post), and last year we were last. We have two points lead to the fifth; it is the positive.
– The negative is that it could have been much more if we had not had the deja-vu from last year with Romains pit-stop, continue the team head.
– in general there is more positive than negative and that is why you see me not in tears or depressed.
– Now we know the potential of the car. We just need to pull it out of it and do a good job, he says.
Both the Renault storsatsede to start. Daniel Ricciardos trip through the grass in an attempt to overtake Sergio Perez caused the death of his races, while Nico Hülkenberg won the three locations. Combined with a slow start to the Grosjean had the frenchman hardly connected higher than the otter.
But it had still been an excellent start for the team instead of an embarrassing deja-vu.
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