Steiner: Haas 'a lot more stable'

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Guenther Steiner says Haas has "gotten a lot more stable" as a team following its first seven races.

Haas is the first new entrant in F1 since 2010, and managed to score points in three of the opening four rounds. Following a return of 18 points in the first two races, Haas has only scored four points in the following five grands prix but team principal Steiner says the strong start makes it easy to forget how early the team is in its development.

"We are still learning," Steiner said. "We’ve gotten a lot more stable. I think we can always be in a position to score points. We always try to improve, to get better, especially in qualifying. I think our race performance is better than our qualifying performance.

"Again, it’s a learning phase. We are pretty happy with the whole team, how they developed over the past three months, especially from where we came from.

"We’ve only had seven races. I keep forgetting myself. Baku is only our eighth race, while we compete with people who have been here for years. All in all, we just keep trying to do a better job at each race while preparing for the new car coming next year."

Ahead of this weekend's Grand Prix of Europe, Steiner concedes the smaller teams can be disadvantaged as they are not as well equipped to react to the challenges of a new venue such as Baku.

“The big teams have more information because they go and get more information. Normally, they are better off because they’ve got more people to get prepared. They will always have an advantage, but at a new venue like Baku, sometimes you can get lucky.”

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