2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix Highlights

 

Haas F1 Team

 

MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Kevin Magnussen, 15th, and Nico Hulkenberg, 19th, at the 2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, Round 14 of the World Championship, held Sunday at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

Both Hulkenberg and Magnussen started the race on the Pirelli P Zero Yellow medium tyres, Hulkenberg from 16th and Magnussen from 17th, and maintained their positions throughout the opening laps.

Magnussen prolonged his first stint until lap 18 before coming in for a set of hard tyres and battled in the midfield while nursing his set of tyres as one of the only drivers to manage a one-stop strategy, eventually classifying in 15th position.

Hulkenberg, meanwhile, adopted a two-stop strategy. He came in on lap seven for White hard tyres before taking on another set of mediums at his second stop on lap 21. Hulkenberg saw the checkered flag in 19th position.

Nico Hulkenberg
We had no pace, harmony, or rhythm. I just didn’t get off on the right foot with the car all weekend, and we didn’t manage to find a sweet spot across the sessions. We need to look a little into why, but we should also forget this weekend and go again after the summer break. Kevin looked a bit better and pulled off the one-stop, which was decent. Overall, we need to look into our low-downforce performance.

Kevin Magnussen

I think we had a decent race, we just didn’t have the pace to fight further up today. We took what we could and did a one-stop, which was fine. I can’t say we did anything wrong. We just weren’t fast enough. We thought this track was going to be good for us, but we’ve been surprised many times, and this is the worst race we’ve had in a while. I’m looking forward to the summer break – everyone is – and then looking forward to some races where we’ll score some more points.

Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal

It was a tough race today. We didn’t have the pace. On Kevin’s side, he drove a really good race and we managed to do a one-stop strategy. Russell did a one-stop and managed to win the race compared to his teammate, who two-stopped, so track evolution was actually pretty big, and tyre degradation was lower than expected. We reacted well, converting Kevin’s strategy from two stops to one, and he drove well. Nico struggled a lot more and we couldn’t have done a one-stop strategy with him due to the degradation he had. We need to investigate why but all in all, it’s not the way we want to finish the last race before the summer shutdown, but we have to look at the bigger picture. Across 14 races, we’ve scored 27 points, and we’re P7 in the Constructors’ Championship – so we need to look at the positives.




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