Haas F1 Team
Romain Grosjean
"Well, it wasn't as good as we wanted. The start was terrible, I don't know why. I was behind Kevin (Magnussen) by turn one, so that shows how bad it was. From there it was very difficult to recover. We tried to push hard, we fitted the hard tyre to do a one-stop race. Honestly, I had two really good overtakes on Russell and Giovinazzi around the outside of turn one and two – both times. That was the highlight of my race. After that it was just managing tyres. We just didn't have the pace in the race, which was a bit of a shame. We'll keep working and see if the next race will be good for us."
Kevin Magnussen
"I started last and got up to P12, which I was fairly happy about, but after that it went south. It wasn't terrible in terms of tyres and pace, not like previous races at least. If we'd hooked everything up, and if I'd started where I should have, and made as good a start as I did, then I'd obviously have been in a much better position. We just didn't have the pace today."
Guenther Steiner, team principal
"This morning qualifying for Romain wasn't so bad, he got into Q3 which was a little bit the highlight of the day. Kevin crashed on his fast lap, he was doing a very fast lap – the car can do one good lap performance-wise. As soon as we go racing though, we fall out of the tyre window and we end up like we did today. It is pretty frustrating but not unexpected, it's not like we were surprised. Still it's never nice that it happens. We just need to try to do our best for the rest of the season to get a little bit out of the car, and mainly learn not to do the same mistakes for next year."
