Haas F1 Duo at Odds over Silverstone Collision

The Haas F1 team crash saga continued at the 2018 British Grand Prix on Sunday. Romain Grosjean bumped into teammate Kevin Magnussen in the opening lap, compromising their races. Later on, he apologised to the Dane and the team for the crash.

The duo were scrapping hard for seventh place at the race start. Then the two locked up side by side at Turn 3. The Frenchman was on the inside line and slid into Magnussen and damaged the latter’s car floor.

Both the drivers lost their track positions because of the incident. Haas managed to salvage some points when Magnussen finished ninth. Meanwhile Grosjean retired from the race after a collision with Carlos Sainz after the safety car.

After passing the chequered flag Magnussen told his team: “Good job guys, but I’m not happy. [Censored]. You all know why. Not good enough. You guys deserve better.”

According to Haas F1 boss Gunter Steiner, Grosjean missed the braking point which resulted in the opening lap collision.

“I just saw it on TV, I didn’t look at it five or six times in a row,” he said.

“Romain apologised to Kevin, I guess he waited with his braking a little bit too long.

“There was a piece of floor missing [from Magnussen’s car], you could see we lost downforce and the balance, he lost downforce on one side.

“I think they recovered pretty good once they got the tyres to work, just to deal with that.

“The car wasn’t really slow, but we had quite big damage on the right-hand side of the floor, quite a big chunk missing.”

According to the stewards’ review of the incident, it was influenced by Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton’s accident a few seconds earlier. In light of that, they took no action on either of the Haas drivers.