When the expectations are low, it is difficult to be disappointed, as the Haas-team manager Günther Steiner found upstairs even a pointløst race.
– the Car is just not faster. What can you do? We got the best out of it with Kevin; there was not more in the. The best news is that there are only three left …
In the long term, it is at least as positive, that the team finally believe they have identified a fundamental aerodynamic problem with the VF19-car.
the Whole concept was from the beginning of the year wrong.
– With the changes in regulations for this season we went in the wrong direction. This is the main problem this year, says Günther Steiner over the Extra Magazine.
– We didn’t spot it early enough and went down a path where we no longer can develop the car. In actuality, we ended up in a dead end. We can develop just as crazy as we want, but with the concept we have, it doesn’t come to work, he says.
In the first half of the season got Its tricky deck to blame, but the overriding problem is in Haas’ own design and its ineffective updates.
– Mechanical fail the car nothing. The is solid. One should point fingers, it is in the development of the aerodynamics. But I will not point fingers at individuals.
– You give the team the blame, and a big part of the team is myself. I’m also giving myself the blame for not getting the eye at the lack of progress in the updates. Formula 1 teams are large, so you point not on individual persons.
– We realized a few months ago, that we had gone in the wrong direction, he says.
Since the summer break has all the focus been on the development of next year’s VF20’is, who gets a fundamentally different concept.
the Heart and the dreams are already in the next season, but there is still a piece of work that has to be finished in the last three races.
There are ‘only’ seven points up to Alfa Romeo on the number-eight spot in the constructor-the WORLD cup, which is a consolation prize, which is millions of dollars worth of prize money.
Before that it succeed, there must be something extraordinary, acknowledges Romain Grosjean.
– As Hockenheim, where we were lucky. Perhaps Brazil will become wet, and we can get a crazy run. For we are talking performance, we are not able to do so, says the frenchman.
See highlights from the Mexico Grand Prix here. Video via Reuters
Formula 1 – 27. oct. 2019 – at. 23:45, Kevin’s ‘perfect’ race: See where Grosjean ended up …
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