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Steiner finally admits frustration over Romain Grosjean

Steiner finally admits frustration over Romain Grosjean

09-07-2018 18:31

Guenther Steiner has received plenty of questions regarding Romain Grosjean over the past couple of months. But it's taken until now for him to express frustrations with his French driver. He's admitted Grosjean is starting to test his patience following another crash.

Grosjean made it into fourth place last weekend, lifting all expectations in the process. But he soon hit reality this weekend as he crashed out on the 37th lap. This wasn't his only issue this weekend. He tangled with team-mate Kevin Magnussen at the start of the Grand Prix and crashed in practice.

Steiner, boss at Haas, has blamed bad luck for a lot of the incidents the team have faced this season. In his interview on racefans, he wasn't using luck as an excuse.

"I wouldn't call this bad luck," Steiner said. "It's getting frustrating. We all hope for him that we are going up and now we down in the dumps again and we need to get out again.

"We will get out of it, it's always hard work, but we should put pour hard work into scoring points instead of getting up again."

Despite expressing these feelings, he confirmed he will continue to support his driver as they push towards Renault in the constructors' championship.

"That's what I need to [do] because we need to succeed as a team. I don't know where the tipping point is. I'm not there yet. But at some stage, as I said before, we need to stop losing points. And that is the tipping point."

Magnussen picked up a further two points at the British Grand Prix pushing his total up to 39 points.