Formula One returnee Kevin Magnussen said he was dreaming of a “lucky” podium after leading resurgent American team Haas to their highest finish in over three years at last week’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Dane, who raced with the team from 2017 until the end of 2020, was rehired as a last-minute replacement for sacked Russian Nikita Mazepin and scored a fifth-place finish in his first race back.
The result gave the team, which finished 2021 at the bottom of the overall standings without scoring a point, their highest finish since the Austrian Grand Prix in 2018 and a much-needed boost.
It lifted them to third in the early championship standings behind only Ferrari and Mercedes and sparked optimism that the team had finally turned the page on the last few seasons of on and off-track turmoil.
“I don’t see us driving onto the podium on pace any time soon but I could kind of expect us to be in the position we were in Bahrain, leading the midfield…,” Magnussen told reporters…
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