Haas completed tenth within the 2023 constructors’ championship after a troublesome season that noticed Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg sometimes shine in qualifying however lack constant race tempo, primarily as a consequence of overheating tyres.
Magnussen logged solely three tenth locations over the course of the season, incomes nineteenth within the closing classification.
A brand new aerodynamic package deal was launched for the US Grand Prix in Austin, nevertheless it didn’t enhance the workforce’s kind.
For the final two races in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi the drivers have been cut up, with Magnussen sticking with the brand new model, and Hulkenberg reverting to the unique.
Regardless of his irritating yr, Magnussen stated he didn’t need to criticise the workforce within the media.
“I do not suppose it helps the workforce to promote them low-cost to you guys,” he stated.
“I believe it is a workforce sport. We’re all concerned. We’re all accountable, and I do not need to stand right here like some holy cow, I am part of this drawback if you’d like I suppose, as is each workforce member in Haas.
“And we have to stick collectively and are available again like now we have completed previously. This workforce has proven nice potential for a very long time, and it is about time we hit our marks on a constant foundation, as a result of I believe the expertise and the potential on this workforce may be very large.
“So I need to be there to push it ahead and present what we are able to do.”
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Kevin Magnussen, Haas F1 Crew, within the storage
Magnussen says he knew early on that the 2023 automotive won’t be ok, citing comparable emotions that he skilled 4 years earlier.
“Significantly as a result of I used to be right here in 2019 with the workforce, after we have been in a really comparable place, I in all probability sounded the alarm bell somewhat early,” he stated. “Sooner than many others, as a result of I drove that ’19 automotive.
“However nonetheless though the signs are the identical, it is not a provided that the trigger is identical as a result of it is a very totally different sort of automotive, this floor impact automotive that produces its downforce in a really totally different technique to what we had in ’19. So we won’t actually examine.”
Requested if there have been positives to be drawn from the workforce’s troublesome 2023 season, he stated: “I suppose as all the time, there’s many issues that you simply be taught when it is this powerful, that you simply would not have discovered if it was easy crusing.
“It is character-building, and it is strengthening. You get resilient, we construct up resilience to arduous occasions. And it is not one thing I take pleasure in, I have not loved this yr an excessive amount of, however there’s all the time one other day to struggle. And subsequent yr is one other large alternative for us.”
Magnussen stated that he supported to choice to separate the specs within the latter races, because it gave the workforce helpful information.
“I believe we have discovered, it was good to get some observe info from such a automotive,” he stated. “Though it wasn’t higher, I believe it was good that we ran the 2 automobiles subsequent to one another for a few races.
“I’d have favored perhaps only one race for that, after which return to the outdated one. However that logistically wasn’t attainable. So I suppose I took one for the workforce [in Abu Dhabi]. However comfortable to try this, and look ahead to subsequent yr.”
