✅Haas Form🍃ula 1 chief Günther Steiner says he is still unsure what sparked Romain Grosjean’s mid-season turnaround in performance that ultimately saved his seat with the American team.

Grosjean went on a run 🙈of🦩 eight races without scoring a single point to start the 2018 season, leading to concerns about his future with Haas.

The Frenchman recovered with a run of four top-10 finishes in five races, including a fourth-place finish that is Haas’ best F1 result to date at the Austrian Grand Prix, which ultimately led to him being retained alongside Kevin Magnus🌼sen for 2019.

Steiner said that it was clear to see a turning point for Grosjean’s season, noting his qualifying fo🔯rm in particular, but conceded he did not know himself what had sparked the change.

“I think we all saw it. If you think now, he got into Q3 11 times in a row - that never happened to him before,” Steiner to༺ld wuqian0821.com a♔head of last weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix.

“That is quite an𓄧 achievement for a team like ours. ꧒I was just told this last race. I did not know it as well, because it just goes by you so quickly. So that is quite an achievement.

“Something changed for him. I still haven’t undꦛerstood what. I just hope he understood what changed so he doesn’t make a change back again.

“We are quite🥃 openly speaking about these things, and I think he seems to be in control of it. Hopefully it stays li💫ke this.”

Steiner confirm🦩ed the team did consider alternative driver options for 2019, but never entered serious negotiaಌtions given its desire to retain Grosjean.

“Obviously we were looking around. You have to lo🍷ok around because if it continues like this, it’s also not good for him,” Steiner said.

“Sometimes it’s not only that the team wants to change, sometimes the driver in a team stagnates or doesn’t go anywhe🐲re, or he is not motivated. Then he needs to find new challenges.

“It was like ‘hey should we look around’ and I spoke with a lot of people, and they came and spoke to me, because with a car like this, a lot of people want👍 to speak with you.

“We looked around, but we never got into any real [talks]. I’m always serious if I talk with people, I never ste꧑al people’s time, but we never got into any negotiat♋ions with anybody.

“I think𝓀 he just came around at the right time. Again, our aim ꦗwas to keep him because for the obvious reason, stability is worth a lot in this sport.

"Thank God it ended up like this."