Haas Formula 1 boss Guenther Steiner says “the best news” for his side is that there are only three races remaining in the 2019 season after a tough Mexican Gra𒁏nd Prix.

The American squad’s struggles continue𒊎d in Mexico City as Kevin Magnussen finished a lowly 15th, two places ahead of teammate Romain Grosjean.

Both drivers 📖struggled for pace throughout Sunday’s 71-lap race and looked set to be beaten by Robert Kubica’s Williams on merit until the Pol🔯e suffered a late puncture.

“The way we directed the race was okay, it’s the car is just not fast enough,” Steiner sa🙈id.

“What can you do? You♚ try to get the best out of it, especially with Kevin that’s what was there, there wasn’t more there. That’s it. So that’s the positive.

“I’m not disappointed because my hopes were always very low, so it’s like the disappoint😼♔ment goes away. The best news? It’s only three more [races] to go!"

Grosjean said he ꦚwas not happy with his car since struggling in final practice on Saturday morning, and could predict how his race would unfold as a result.

“It was a tough afternoon,” the Frenchman explained. “Nothing was w💜orking very well, we just have to hope that the next race is better.

“We need to keep looking to find out what’s going on with the car. Here, it hasn’t felt right since🍬 FP3, and the race confirmed that.”

Magnussen’s race was h🤡ampered when he picked up damage in a collision with the recovering Red Bull of Max Verstappen, t🍸hough Steiner had no qualms with the incident.

“That situati🙈on I find was okay, that was racing for m🐲e,” he said. “They weren’t playing, they were racing.

“Stewards sometimes don’t underst♒and racing, but this time they understood that it wasn’t important enough. Maybe that was the biggest reason. If it had beeꦐn at the front then ‘wow!’, but this was racing.

“Like at the start as well Kimi [Raikkonen] ran into Kevin, he lost part of the floor on the left-hand side but that for me i🥃s racing. That can happen if you are in these positions, the risk is h൩igher.”

Magnussen added: “I think we did a good job considering we ma♌de a one-stop strateg🐭y work.

“We had damage on the ca✱r, I was hit by🃏 Kimi at the start, we were all squeezed up and he damaged my floor.

𝕴“Taking those things into con༺sideration, and knowing that we just didn’t have the pace today, I think we did the best that we could.”