Team engineers Haas they were often confused in the first half of the season. Because their race car was constantly behaving like some kind diva. Fast in qualifying, slow in racing and unreliable. The biggest problem is in the tires and no other team is fighting them like that Haas. Achieve the optimal operating temperature window Pirelli's products was for Americans often mission impossible.
"We had to use extreme compromises in the settings to succeed, at least to some extent,”Is the last bentil Gunther Steiner, team boss Haas. Since the problem was by no means solved, the engineers decided on a drastic measure. Both race cars were dropped to the race with different configurations. Since it was not clear how the latest aerodynamic improvements would affect tire temperatures and wear, he had to Romain Grosjean race again with the settings from Australia. Kevin Magnussen however, it collected comparative data with the current specification.
In fact, this experiment was supposed to be performed only in race v Silverstone, but in this race both riders collided already in the first lap and resigned. V Hockenheim they were bothered by the rain so that the engineers could not gather enough data. They only managed this in the third attempt at Hungaroring.
It is now Gunther Steiner confirmed that this experiment completed. "We will only be driving in Spa with the new package we brought to Hockenheim. We learned a lot about it and also modified some parts. Both race cars will perform with the same specification. I hope that we will learn something else in Belgium."
But the team's engineers from North Carolina they are not only busy with the current race car, they are also working hard on VF-20, race car of the year 2020. "In part, we are already focusing on the 2020 season. We will now wait for the results from the wind tunnel and decide whether we will even bring any improvements to the old model. We don't know that yet,He emphasized Steiner. Due to the listed tire problems and time consuming fault finding, it is Haas meanwhile in the championship teams slipped on ninth placeIf teenager here he adds combatively: “Anything is still possible. However, it’s hard if you have a race car that doesn’t work on the race. Because points are divided here."
