Haas relieved to take points from Sakhir

Haas team boss Guenther Steiner was delighted with his side's response at the Bahrain Grand Prix, despite Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen giving him a few heart-stopping moments. Magnussen came home fifth in Sakhir, having missed on a potential fourth-place finish in Australia.

A pair of botched pitstops within three laps of each other caused a double DNF in Melbourne, but the team took points in race two thanks to a solid drive from Magnussen.

Both Haas drivers came close during the race, with Grosjean chopping across the Dane's front-wing to prompt a string of expletive-laden messages back to the team.

Steiner said: "From a morale point of view, fifth place, let's do it again and keep it going. Nobody can sit back and get lazy.

"You can imagine how I feel! I didn't want to have a deja vu of Australia.

"We had two cars in the points at one stage, solid, and then it was like 'it cannot go away again!' One actually went away.

"For the team, it's very important for the guys. We had a tough winter. They worked really hard, all the guys.

"You get to Australia, you're running good, very good, everything, and then you lose it like this. But they came back."

Grosjean finished 11th after his car routinely shed bodywork through the race.

"He lost some parts on the car," Steiner said. "The car was apparently undriveable, he lost a lot of downforce, we can see that.

"He had to come in and he lost a safe ninth or 10th position. So he was annoyed about that.

"We need to see if he touched anybody or if he went over the kerbs, what happened there, why we lost it. He was missing some of the bargeboard, the side flaps. The car just lost a lot of downforce."