An atmosphere of anger and disappointment prevails at Haas after the Monaco Grand Prix, particularly regarding the decisions made by the race management against Nico H\u00fclkenberg.<\/p>\n
The German Grand Prix was indeed compromised right from the first lap of the race after a daring overtake, which did not result in any serious accident or contact, at the expense of Logan Sargeant’s Williams. At the entrance of the Mirabeau turn, H\u00fclkenberg collided with the American driver after a borderline maneuver, causing the Haas driver to lock his right front wheel. This attempt was deemed unfair by the stewards, who imposed a five-second penalty on car number 27.<\/p>\n
As if that wasn’t enough, the 35-year-old driver did not serve his penalty correctly, which is why the race direction added a new penalty of 10 seconds to him. A decision, especially the one regarding the maneuver on Sargeant, considered by many to be excessive, even though H\u00fclkenberg did not want to create controversy over the incident. \u00ab The weekend hasn’t been the best, but the race was still fun, with all its stages, different tires, and different conditions,\u00bb he commented.<\/p>\n
I am happy to have finished it. The pace was quite good when I had a clear track, but for most of the race, I was stuck in traffic. In a way, I think the problems we encountered were specific to Monaco, so I hope we will be in a better position in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Despite these incidents, H\u00fclkenberg only finished 17th, still doing better than Magnussen, 19th. The penalty imposed on the German was not accepted by Team Principal G\u00fcnther Steiner, who commented on the “judgments” against his driver: \u00ab We tried everything to score points \u00bb, he added, \u00ab it makes no sense to finish 12th, 13th or 14th, so we decided to take a gamble at the end, by staying out and then coming into the pits with rain tires, because you never know what might happen, but it didn’t work. We lost the race in qualifying and we knew that unless something special happened, we wouldn’t be able to score points. We tried, everyone worked hard to make it happen. We received a penalty, we don’t know why, on the first lap. Once again, the FIA was not consistent, but that seems to be the norm now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Haas team director expressed his disbelief at the 5-second penalty imposed on Nico H\u00fclkenberg for the maneuver on Sargeant. He didn’t hesitate to be critical of the FIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":32622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[499,556,1100],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-grand-prix-de-monaco","tag-steiner","tag-hulkenberg"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n