Magnussen: Haas "need" to convert good qualifying into points

Haas F1's Kevin Magnussen has said that his team "need" to convert their good qualifying round into points on Sunday, as the American outfit hasn't finished with both cars in the points yet this season.

That's mainly because of Romain Grosjean. The Frenchman amazingly hasn't scored any points yet this season, something only he and Williams rookie Sergey Sirotkin can say. Magnussen has a respectable 27 points, putting him in tenth place in the drivers' championship.

On Saturday, both Haas cars made it to Q3, and they made the most of it too. Romain Grosjean dragged out the sixth best time, and even got bumped up to P5 as Sebastian Vettel received a penalty after the fact. Magnussen starts from P8, but he fancies his chances for a good double points finish for him and his teammate.

“I think the team did a really good job today with the car being so good,” Magnussen said on Haas's website.

"I think P6 and P8 are pretty good starting positions for tomorrow.” (Grosjean is in P5 now, but this was statement was taken before Vettel's penalty was made public)

With Grosjean having a Ferrari and a Red Bull breathing down his neck during Sunday's race, he could be losing out on his starting pretty quickly. Then, however, Haas should be in pretty good shape.

“We’ll see how Sunday goes, our pace yesterday in FP2 on the long runs was pretty good,” K-Mag continued.