Guenther Steiner: Spanish GP weekend "pretty good", but "we just haven't got the pace"

Spanish Grand Prix

Steiner: Spanish GP weekend "pretty good", but "we just haven't got the pace"

Magnussen and Grosjean finished 15th and 19th in Spain

Sam Hall

Monday 17 August 2020 08:00

Haas team principal Guenther admits "the car hasn't got the pace" after drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean ended the Spanish Grand Prix 15th and 19th.

With no upgrades in the pipeline, Haas has demonstrated in 2020 that it must rely on risky alternate strategies to score points.

In the drying conditions in Hungary, this gamble paid off, but in a regular dry race with no safety car interventions, the room for ingenuity is minimal to none.

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Questioned as to the positives that could be taken from the weekend, Steiner answered: "I would say today, especially with Kevin, we executed as good as we could. We had a different strategy and the strategy worked. There was no result but you need to do something.

"The execution was fine, it is just we haven't got the pace at the moment. The car hasn't got the pace. This is what we are faced with but otherwise, the whole weekend, everything was done pretty good." Grosjean ended Friday practice inside the top five positions and was duly complimentary of the car that evening.

However, the Frenchman changed his tune after a difficult Saturday and Sunday in Barcelona, but Steiner feels his driver's words should be taken "with a pinch of salt".

He added: "We need a little bit of a filter on his comments at the moment, you know it is like the worst and the best is easy to say. We need to see.

"We know we haven't got the best car and having the best car one day and the worst car another day, I think we need to take it with a little bit of a pinch of salt.

"We need to look at it. Why we lost so much performance from Friday to today? The lap times on Friday, they were genuine and today, we could only lap two seconds slower than Friday, so that is very strange."

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