Grosjean retains Haas faith

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner expects a positive response from Romain Grosjean after a difficult start to 2018. After five races, Grosjean is one of just two drivers yet to score a point, alongside rookie Sergey Sirotkin in a Williams car that looks to be by far the worst on the grid.

Haas have delivered a car that is contending to be the best of the rest behind Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull this season, but Grosjean is yet to get the best out of it.

A clumsy whirl into the wall under the safety car in Baku, from sixth position, was followed by a first-lap crash in Barcelona, in which the Frenchman floored the gas and collected Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly in a spinning, smoking and scary incident.

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Grosjean will serve a three-place grid penalty in Monaco over the latter incident, denting his chances of getting off the mark even further.

However, with Kevin Magnussen proving that performance from the car is not an issue, Steiner believes Grosjean can come out the other side of his current rut.

"I think it eats on you, but sometimes a little bit of success puts it the other way," Steiner said.

"So at the moment he is for sure on a down but I spoke to him and he seems to have reacted OK.

"It's not how you get down, it's how you get up. So if he has a Romain result, like he can have, everyone will have forgotten about the last nine races.

"It's just one of those things, you need to just keep on working hard at yourself and with what you are doing because then you will get back. If you have got the talent and you know that you can do it you just need to materialise on it.

"What we can do, we can support him and do what we can do. I think he will be fine."