In the round-up: Kevin Magnussen says Haas’ major upgrade package for this weekend is working as expected after his first qualifying session in the updated car
In brief
Haas upgrade “doing what we expected” insists Magnussen
Kevin Magnussen says Haas’ major upgrade package for this weekend is working as expected after his first qualifying session in the updated car.
Haas have introduced major revisions to their bodywork and sidepods for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix on Magnussen’s car alone, with team mate Mick Schumacher racing with an older specification. Despite only qualifying in 13th place for today’s race – two places ahead of Schumacher – Magnussen insists the new package is working as intended.
“We need to give it a bit of time so we can extract more performance out of it, lap time wise,” he said. “But I think we at least have put an upgrade on that is doing what we expected it to do and we know there is potential there, so that’s a good step at least.
“It doesn’t look like we’ve taken a step back with it. It actually looks like already a bit of a step. Although we seem a bit off as a team this week, it seems like my car is a bit better and it’s supposed to.”
Williams fined for tyre set mix-up
The Williams team were fined €1,000 by the Hungarian Grand Prix stewards for inadvertently sending out Alexander Albon in Q1 on a tyre set they had previously logged as having returned to Pirelli.
Albon was released by his team on a set of tyres that had been electronically logged as returned to Pirelli, prompting an investigation by the stewards. Williams explained to the stewards how an “administrative error” by the team had seen them return a set of unused tyres to the tyre supplier, rather than the set they had intended to surrender.
The stewards accepted that it had been a genuine error, but handed Williams a €1,000 fine for having breached the regulations. Albon qualified 17th on the grid for today’s race, with team mate Nicholas Latifi in 20th.
De Vries loses third after weaving penalty
Nyck de Vries lost his podium finish at the first London EPrix after he was handed a post-race time penalty by the stewards for weaving while defending from Nick Cassidy late in the race.
Cassidy was pressuring the Mercedes driver for third as they began the penultimate lap, with De Vries deemed to have moved more than once along the start finish straight to defend his position heading to turn one. De Vries would eventually…
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