Haas F1 Team
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Nico Hulkenberg eighth and Kevin Magnussen 12th at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Round 22 of the 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, held Saturday night at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit.
Hulkenberg started from ninth place on the grid on Pirelli P Zero Yellow medium tires, and gained a spot early on to hold eighth, before being overhauled by the recovering Oscar Piastri and fast-charging Lewis Hamilton. Hulkenberg came in for White hard tires on lap 14 and gradually cycled through the traffic, before making a second stop on lap 33, also for hard rubber. The German re-emerged in 12th position but slotted into the top 10, before chasing down RB’s Yuki Tsunoda in the closing stages. Hulkenberg carved his way past Tsunoda on lap 44 to move into eighth spot, a position he retained to the checkered flag.
Magnussen started from 12th place, also on medium tyres, but dropped down to 15th amid the jostling in the midfield. The Dane ran slightly longer than most rivals, coming in for hard tyres on lap 17, and ran a one-stop strategy, the only driver in the field to do so. Magnussen then retained 12th through to the finish.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team moves back to sixth position in the Constructors’ Championship, on 50 points – one point ahead of seventh-placed Alpine (49) and four ahead of RB in eighth (46).
Nico Hulkenberg
I’m happy; P8 is the best we could’ve achieved today, being the fifth-best team. It was a clean race with good execution, and as expected, it was very challenging on the tyre side with graining – especially on the front. That kept everyone occupied and busy, but we came out of that well and offset ourselves a little bit to our main competition, which worked well. Our pace was also decent.
Kevin Magnussen
I think we did a one-stop, which wasn’t the right thing, and that’s why we’re P12. The pace was good on the hard tyre, but it was just bad on the graining while on the medium. We struggled but kept going on and lost everything, so we had to build it back up on the hard. It didn’t feel like we got the best out of it.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal
I think that’s the best P8 we’ve ever achieved. It wasn’t an easy race to manage, but I’m so happy nobody panicked, and everyone stayed calm. Everyone, including the team back at the factory, did their bit, and to have that solid two-stop race with Nico to get P8 is great. With Kevin, after the first lap was losing position, etc., the only way we could get him back into the game was one-stop. His team did as well as possible in that scenario, nearly returning to P10. It was a huge team effort and backed up into P6 in the Constructors’. After that terrible result in Brazil, it’s been a fantastic reaction, and it gives people confidence so that I couldn’t be happier.
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