Haas F1 Team
Romain Grosjean
“We had a great start and I was on the inside of Palmer under braking. I don’t know why he turned in. I was there and then he turned in. I tried to get as much as I could on the apex, but he just hit me, spun and came back and hit me again. The car was badly damaged and our race was over. I was full of hope that we could understand what was going on over the weekend, get some more mileage and understand things so we can perform at the next race. Though we were maybe not going to score points today, it’s always good to be able to see what we could do.”
Kevin Magnussen
“It’s been a bit of an off weekend for us, but we’ve learned from it. We’ve had some strong weekends in the first three races, then not so strong this weekend for some reason. I guess you always learn and I don’t think this is representative for the rest of the season. It’s difficult when you have a midfield that’s so tight. It doesn’t take a big mistake before you fall back. It’s not ideal, but I’m looking forward to the next race and the rest of the season.”
Guenther Steiner, team principal
“The weekend ended how it started – badly. I think the best thing we can do is put it behind us and concentrate on Spain. Obviously, Romain had the incident when Palmer ran into him at turn two. That was his race done. With Kevin, he got the five-second penalty and that put us out of the running. We just lost too much time and that was the race. We just tried to bring the car home because there was nothing to be gained or lost. We started 13th, we finished 13th. Now we go to Barcelona.”
