MoneyGram Haas F1 Team drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen finished 17th and 19th at the 2023 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, held Sunday at the Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team retains a seventh position in the Constructors’ Championship on eight points.
Kevin Magnussen
We tried everything. We tried to do the opposite of everyone, and it didn’t work out. Initially, in the dry, it looked interesting, but when the rain came, I stayed out hoping for a safety car or a red flag, but that didn’t happen, of course. We ended up last and put the full wets on, but we couldn’t get them started, so the race was over by then. There are a lot of incentives to take risks when you’re outside the top 10, and that’s what we did today, but it didn’t work out. Next week is another race week.
Nico Hulkenberg
The weekend hasn’t been too good, but the race was fun, going through all the different stages with different tires and conditions. I’m happy I got through it, and came through quite well. I feel the pace was actually pretty decent when I had some clear track, but for most of the race, I was stuck in traffic like you are in Monaco. To some extent, I feel the problems we had have been Monaco-specific, so I’m quite hopeful we should be in a better position in Barcelona, so I look forward to that.
Guenther Steiner, Team Principal:
We tried everything possible today to get into the points. There’s no point in finishing twelfth, thirteenth or fourteenth, so we decided to take a gamble at the end, staying out and then pitting for full wets as you never know what can happen, but it didn’t work out. The race was lost yesterday in qualifying, and we knew that if something special didn’t happen, we could not get into the points. We tried, and everybody was working hard to get it done. We got a penalty – we don’t know what for on lap 1 – again, inconsistency from the FIA there, but it seems to be what now is normal.
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