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Steiner: Haas will bring big updates to Spanish Grand Prix
Jake Williams-Smith
Haas F1 team principal Gunther Steiner says the American team will be bringing a "significant upgrade" to Barcelona for the Spanish Grand Prix.
The team has struggled since the opening round in Australia particularly with the new 2019 Pirelli tyres and keeping them in the optimum operating window. Kevin Magnussen's sixth place in Melbourne is now a distant memory.
Ahead of the race in Spain, Steiner says the team will be bringing a lot of upgrades to the car in the hopes of recovering their pace from the beginning of the season.
“We’re bringing our first upgrades of the year," he said.
"A lot of parts on the car will change – the front wing, the floor and a lot of the smaller parts, like mirrors. It’s a quite significant upgrade. We want to show everyone how good we should be if we get the tyres to work.
“The hope is that it all works as it did in testing. We’ve obviously lost a little bit of confidence after the last three race weekends, but we haven’t lost it completely. We’re just careful to make predictions. We are cautiously optimistic.”
Haas currently finds itself eighth in the constructor standings sitting on eight points.
