Haas F1 Team
Nico Hulkenberg
"It's very frustrating and disappointing, and it was a very similar scenario to last year into Turn 4 at the start. On a positive note, our race pace and tyre degradation looked pretty reasonable compared to the other midfield runners, and I think we're fighting Williams, Sauber and RB, so I guess we take that as a positive. There will be more findings after today, things to improve and optimize on. Jeddah is obviously a very different circuit with completely different characteristics, so we'll see what we get there but it feels like we have a much better foundation to work with compared to last year."
Kevin Magnussen
"I'm kind of pleased – not over the moon, as we didn't score points – but it seems like we have a car which is a bit better on the tyres this year, not necessarily quicker than last year but at least better on tyres, and I think we've shown that today. Nonetheless, it's only one track, one bit of tarmac, and one set of conditions so we still have to show that elsewhere. It's been a good couple of weeks of work, the team has done a really good job, and we're in a good place – we just need to find more."
Ayao Komatsu, team principal
"Okay it wasn't the perfect race, Nico had a bad start and damaged his front wing which essentially meant his race was over at that point. Kevin's race showed that we can fight this year. We don't have the best degradation but at least in the midfield, we can fight for the points. We didn't do a perfect strategy but even then, Kevin was fighting in the midfield until the last moments which was a huge positive. We know the margin of error is very, very small so we need to step-up on that side as well. There are huge positives to take from this weekend and then looking forward to another chance next weekend. We're really looking forward to a strong show again in Jeddah."
