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Ferrari and Haas drop way back during races Steiner sees connection
It all started so beautifully. Admittedly, Nico Hulkenberg lost his original place on the front row of the grid in Canada due to a penalty, but from sixth place there were serious prospects of scoring points. Sunday afternoon local time, the Haas driver appeared to have come home from a cold start. Once again, the team had failed to move beyond a final position in the rear.
Fifteenth was Hulkenberg, nine places worse than his starting position. Over one qualifying lap the Haas has serious speed at times, once in the race there is often little of it left. It is a phenomenon that Ferrari also often faces. The Italians also do pretty to well on Saturday, only to usually fall through the ice a day later.
Is there a parallel?
Haas not only uses Ferrari's power unit, a lot of parts are also supplied from Maranello to the American team. So is it a coincidence that there is such a big difference between race pace and qualifying? "I can just look in like you from outside but it seems to be a parallel," Guenther Steiner told reporters in Montreal. "They [Ferrari] fall back as well in the race, it seems like – on certain racetracks, not on all of them."
What exactly is the problem at Ferrari and Haas, Steiner cannot answer that, the Italian revealed. Is it the wind tunnel? Is it the suspension? "We need to find where the problem has come from, that is the first thing we need to understand properly before coming to the conclusion that it’s the same problem Ferrari has got," the Haas F1 team boss said.