Gutierrez: I deserve better from Haas

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Esteban Gutierrez believes he deserves a better car from Haas because reliability problems are "making me look very bad".

While Romain Grosjean has scored points at three of the first four races so far this season, Gutierrez has yet to score and has been hit but numerous reliability issues. An electronics problem limited him to just nine laps in FP2 and the Mexican's patience appears to be running out as he blamed the situation for hurting his reputation.

"I honestly put myself aside from this because it’s not really my responsibility to fix the car," Gutierrez said. "The team has to get on top of this, I am here to drive, to drive as fast as possible and it is what I really love doing.

"It’s not nice because it’s making me look very bad to the outside as a driver, personally. All the fucking great job I’m doing on the inside is not really perceived by the outside.

"So it’s a little bit frustrating on that side and also showing my pace I’ve been quick on everything, I just hope to get the car that I deserve in order to put the results on the paper."

And Gutierrez says he is in a good place mentally because he is confident he is performing well when the car is running reliably.

"I don’t worry about myself. At the moment I feel very good. Every time I drive the car I enjoy it a lot, I’m on top of everything and I’m doing my best with what I have. But this pressure is not on me, this pressure is on the people responsible for it.”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.