Team Talk - Sunday in Yas Marina

Haas F1 Team

Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23 makes a pit stop. 26.11.2023. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 23, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, Race Day. - www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com © Copyright: Batchelor / XPB Images
Nico Hulkenberg
"The positives for me are how I've felt during this season. My hunger to drive, to be competing in Formula 1, be back in the competition, that's been really fun and good. Even with the difficult Sundays, I've been enjoying it and I'm hungry for more, so that's positive news. Otherwise, today was the story of the season, we just don't have enough pace. Degradation wasn't necessarily the problem today, it was just pace, we couldn't keep up with the faster cars. We've put it to bed now and hopefully we'll have some better tools next year."

Kevin Magnussen
"I think the only positive today is that it was the last race. We can close this season now and look forward to next year. It's not been a good year for us, we haven't developed at the rate we should've, or at all. We started the year in an okay position, but we lost out to the competition in the development race. It's going to be a big winter for us to catch up, but I believe we can do it."

Guenther Steiner, team principal
"It's been a tough season for us, which started well but didn't get any better, as everyone else got better. We ended up fighting all season, so now we need to work hard over the winter to get a better car out there as there are a lot of things within this team that are good. We've got a race team which is always ready to race, and a team who wants to do well, we just need to get better with the performance of the car – then we will be okay. It's not an easy task but everyone is rolling their sleeves up and working hard to achieve it."