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Haas F1 Team had to contend with technical problems unrelated to the cars in Sunday's British Grand Prix, with GPS and electricity failures causing the team issues during the race.
The electricity failure during the race meant that the team could not see where either car was, and could not communicate with drivers Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez.
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"We had a problem with our electricity - everything went down, we had no data, nothing available to the engineers because everything went down," said team principal Guenther Steiner. "The panic comes in then, you cannot concentrate on the car any more but you try to fix to get your telemetry back.
"We lost a bit of time there because Esteban then came in a lap late for going to dry [tyres], because it was [during] that period. We couldn't speak properly, we had no GPS, we didn't know where he was and the call came late. We then had a transmission failure for Grosjean."
Despite the extreme nature of the failure, Steiner believes that the team will learn from it going forward.
"It was just an electricity problem, maybe we need to do it a bit different. It's one of those things that we don't know why it happens. I'm not an electrician but I don't think it had anything to do with the wet," he said. "It just happened. It was a bad day anyway, we'll fix it and not think about it any more as I think the electricians found the root cause of it."
"These days, we knew they would happen. It's never nice when they happen but you learn out of mistakes, you can do a lot by experience but some things you need to learn and make better. It was a tough race for a lot of people."
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