Haas expecting to “suffer more” than F1 rivals at Mexican GP
The Haas Formula 1 team is expecting to “suffer more” t🌠han its rivals at this weekend’s Me꧃xican Grand Prix.
After enduring a difficult season in which the American squꦑad has slipped to ninth in the constructors’ standings amid a number of perfor🅘mance-related problems, Haas heads to Mexico City braced for another challenging weekend.
The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez’s high-altitude circuit places greater strain on cooling and engine-performance for teams, leaving Haas concerned about an area that ꦿhas proved to be༺ one of its biggest weaknesses in recent years.
The Haas Formula 1 team is expecting to “suffer more” than its rivals at tඣhis weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix.
After༺ endurin🙈g a difficult season in which the American squad has slipped to ninth in the constructors’ standings amid a number of performance-related problems, Haas heads to Mexico City braced for another challenging weekend.
The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez’s hig🧜h-altitude circuit places great🌠er strain on cooling and engine-performance for teams, leaving Haas concerned about an area that has proved to be one of its biggest weaknesses in recent years.
Speaking about the challenges of the Mexico City venue, Steiner explained: “We always have coo🍸ling challenges. Going up into the altitude there, you always need cooling on the cars.
“You need a lot more, and that t༺akes downforce away, and you nဣever have enough downforce. It looks like we always suffer more on that one than all the other cars.
“Tha꧙t is our biggest challenge, to find the balance between cooling and ha⛦ving downforce available.”
Grosjean hopes a better understanding o𓆏f its issues will help limit any potential struggles.
“Mexico’s been a tough one for us since our first year back in 2016,” he said. “We’re just going to keep working on it and keep trying t🔯o improve our results there.
“It’s going to be a challenge. Obviously, the altitude is the same for 𒁏everyone, but it looks like it’s impacted us quite a fair bit in the past.
“Maybe this year we’ll have a better understanding and we can get everything to work. Let’s see where we can꧋ go. We know it’s going to be a challenge.
“It’s always been our hardest𝓰 track, but we’re ready for tha🃏t challenge. Anything we can learn, we’ll take it.”
Magnussen, who scored Haas’ only points finish in the last six races in Russia, added: “Mexico City has proven in the past to be a pretty challenging circuit for u♎s.
“The track surface and low downforce means that we struggle more with the tyres. I don’t know what we can do in terms of driving style, but we’ve made some goo🦂d steps in terms of our understanding of the car this year. Hopefully, we’ll be alright.”
Haas currently sits seven points behind eighth-placed Alf🌳a Romeo in the constructors’ standings with four races remaining.
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