Haas F1 Team
Romain Grosjean
“The morning wasn’t too bad, but our afternoon was disastrous. It’s up to us to work around that. When we have problems like this on Friday, it tends to cost us on Sunday. Granted, we still have tomorrow, but we need to make the most of it in light of everything we dealt with today.”
Esteban Gutierrez
“It was great to get to know my home circuit. It’s very exciting to be here and to drive the track, which is amazing, in front of all the Mexican fans. We’re going to have to keep working on the performance side of things, which isn’t great at the moment. The car was difficult to drive during FP2 and had little grip. We’ll be working on that tonight to try to sort out our setup and make things better for FP3 and qualifying.”
Guenther Steiner, team principal
“FP1 was a pretty good session for both Romain and Esteban and we managed to get all of our program completed. FP2, however, was not what we wanted. Romain had an immediate problem with the ECU and that stopped us. We had to change a lot of the electronic equipment, which left him with only the last 30 minutes of the session. So, we couldn’t get everything done that we needed to do. With Esteban, he had no grip in comparison to FP1 and was just sliding around out there. We will be looking into this to see what we can find out and, hopefully, find a solution for FP3 tomorrow.”
