The Dane caused a stir on the penultimate day of pre-season testing when, during an extra hour of private running for Haas, he set the fastest overall time of the day.
While the achievement, on his return to the F1 cockpit after a year away in sportscars, caused a stir on social media, Magnussen insisted he was reading nothing in to it.
For running in more ideal cooler evening track conditions, and alone on track, Magnussen said there was almost nothing to read in to the lap he delivered.
“ I wish I could say that this means a whole lot,” explained Magnussen afterwards.
“It’s always nice to see your team on top, and suddenly we want that rather than being at the bottom. But it’s not like we think… it’s not like we believe now that we’re going to be champions this year or anything.
“Being fastest on the test day in pre-season testing in F1, I think anyone that knows even a little bit about Formula 1 knows that it doesn’t really mean much.”
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