HaasF1 driver Kevin Magnussen was poised to join hs teammate, Romain Grosjean with another points-paying effort in Sunday afternoon's Austrian Grand Prix, however, while running in a strong 11th place and just a tenth of a second shy of the 10th-place Williams of Lance Stroll, a hydraulic issue on lap 30 sent the Danish driver into the garage.
Magnussen had started 15th on a new set of Red supersoft tires and had yet to pit before his day ended prematurely.
The team now need to look into what it actually was that went wrong, but he was racing hard. Again, they were up for having two cars in the points, but they'll get there, quite possibly in Silverstone this coming weekend. .
“It's pretty tough when these things happen,” Kevin said. “You're in a good position, the car's working really well, and it was our strongest weekend with the most potential for a good result for both cars. I could easily have been up there with Romain and we could've had a perfect result for the team.”
“It's just been really poor luck this weekend. I'm hoping that we can keep our form up and have other races like this where we can have top results – like we should have had today. There's only a few days to wait then we're at it again, so I'm really hoping we can do well again.”
