HAAS CONFIRMS ROMAIN GROSJEAN AND KEVIN MAGNUSSEN FOR 2019
The American team will retain the same driver pairing for the third consecutive year and is the seventh team to confirm its line-up for the upcoming season.
Team boss Guenther Steiner believes the driver consistency will help the team continue to develop as it heads into its fourth season in F1.
“From the very beginning, we needed experienced drievrs to hasten the development of our car and our team, and we have two very good and experienced drievrs in Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen,” he said.
“We’ve improved drastically from last year to this year, so retaining both drivers was a pretty easy decision.
I think the 100-point barrier should be and will be broken, and we’ll do it with Romain and Kevin. Both drivers push each other to be better and their collective feedback allows us to be better.
It’s not a coincidence that in their second year as team-mates Haas F1 Team is having its best year. By keeping Romain and Kevin together we aim to do even better next year.”
Haas has regularly been best of the rest so far this season, with Magnussen lying seventh in the drivers’ championship behind the Red Bull, Ferrari, and Mercedes drivers. Grosjean, who endured a string of retirements early in the season, lies 14th overall, while Haas is currently fifth in the teams’ championship.
“It’s impressive to see what this team has accomplished in such a relatively short time, and for someone who has been here since the very beginning, I take a lot of pride in the time, effort and sacrifice we’ve all put forth to make Haas F2 team so competitive,” Grosjean said.
“I’m very happy to continue with Haas F1 team and represent Haas Automation and all our partners. Gene Haas has built something very special – something we can make even better – and it’s an honour to be a part of it.”
Magnussen added: “I’ve never been in a better situation than the one I’m in here at Haas. This is a team filled with racers and we’re all striving for the same thing.
There’s no bureaucracy and everything is straightforward. Gene Haas is all about efficiency and he and Guenther Steiner have created a very efficient environment that gets the best from its people.
We all believe in each other and that’s why we’ve achieved as much as we have.”
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