Haas F1 Team
Nico Hulkenberg
“I’m very pleased; I think P8 is the best we could’ve achieved today, being the fifth best team. It was a clean race, good execution and as expected, it was very challenging on the tire side with graining – on the front especially. That kept everyone occupied and busy, but we came out of that well and offset ourselves a little bit to our main competition and that worked well, and our pace was also decent.”
Kevin Magnussen
“We did a one-stop which wasn’t the right thing I think, and that’s why we’re P12. The pace was good on the hard tire, just bad on the graining while on the medium. We struggled but kept going on, and lost everything, so had to build it back up on the hards. It didn’t feel like we got the best out of it.”
Ayao Komatsu, team principal
“I think that’s the best P8 we’ve ever achieved. It wasn’t an easy race to manage, but what I’m so happy about is that nobody panicked, and everyone stayed calm. Everyone, including the team back at the factory, did their bit, and to have that strong two-stop race with Nico to get P8 is great. With Kevin, after the first lap was losing position etc. the only way we could get him back into the game was one-stop. His team did as well as they could in that scenario, nearly getting back to P10. I think it was a huge team effort, and back up into P6 in the Constructors’. After that terrible result in Brazil, it’s been an amazing reaction, and it gives people confidence, so I couldn’t be happier.”
