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Haas’ Guenther Steiner: “The safety car destroyed our race”

Guenther Steiner was adamant the safety car ruined a potentially good result for the Haas F1 Team in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, with Kevin Magnussen ultimately scoring only one point in tenth as Romain Grosjean trailed home in seventeenth. Steiner, the team principal of Haas, believes that without the intervention of the safety car, caused when debris was strewn across the track when the two Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda drivers collided, they were on course to see both cars finish inside the top eight or nine. Neither Magnussen nor Grosjean pitted when the safety car deployed, which ultimately was the wrong decision as other drivers took the gamble, and from a position of strength they...
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