Haas's Kevin Magnussen talks about his 'hopeless' performance in Bahrain
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Kevin Magnussen was disappointed with the result of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Haas struggled for straight line speed which left the Danish driver in 13th at the end of the race. Compared to the other Ferrari engines who were very fast on the straights, it seems strange that Haas was so slow suggesting that there is another issue with the car.
Magnussen does not know what caused the lack of speed but hopes that the issue can be found and fixed in time for China.
"The car just didn't have pace," he said to Autosport. "We were just hopeless all the way from the beginning to the end. It was just a pretty hopeless race.
"We were so good in qualifying so the car has to be good, but something wasn't right and we need to work really hard to try and understand what went wrong."
"We clearly have a good car when we get it working, but it's pretty worrying to have a day like this," he said. "I just had no grip. The car wasn't working, wasn't switched on. Sliding everywhere, locking up everywhere.
"We were a little bit sceptical about our race pace. We saw our deficit to low fuel, but we didn't expect it to be as bad as this, it was just hopeless today. We need to try to understand what went wrong."
"We were the slowest on the straights," he said. "Other Ferrari engines were flying past me on the straights. We knew we had a high-downforce package here so it's not such a big surprise, but we thought we'd be fast pace-wise."
Haas will hope that they can get back into the points in the next race as they continue to try and bridge the gap between the midfield and the top teams.