Romain Grosjean still struggling with his Haas
Both Haas F1 Team drivers will be in the second half of the grid for Sunday's race start. Esteban Guttierez ahead of Romain Grosjean, who is still struggling with the heat of his tires.
The race weekends follow one another and look the same for Romain Grosjean and his Haas team. The Frenchman, who thought he had finally found the solution to the problem that’s been hindering him these past weeks, remains very disappointed with his 15th place finish in the qualifiers.
This time, it’s a tire temperature issue that is behind his poor performance: The balance of the car isn’t too bad, but we have no grip with the tires. We haven’t managed to get them to work properly. For various reasons, we already had this problem at the beginning of the year, but we haven’t managed to get them into the right operating window. This means you can’t drive the car the way you want. Yesterday, our race pace was quite good, so let’s hope the race will be better.
The satisfaction of once again outperforming his experienced teammate could be seen on Esteban Gutierrez’s face, nevertheless only 14th on the grid: « I’m happy with what I achieved today [yesterday]. Now I’m going to get some rest and recovery and tackle a good race on Sunday. »
