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Kevin Magnussen believes that next years cars will be more driver dependent, and the faster car won't necessarily mean the fastest driver.
Formula One goes through another regulation change, this time the focus being on aerodynamics and wider, fatter tyres. The rules mean there will be a bigger strain on driver fitness and car control, according to Dane Magnussen.
"If they are as fast as we all predict and hope for then it will be more of a driver's car that you can push," Magnussen said,
"With the old cars and last year's cars it's been more a compromise. Your driving style was very compromised with tyres, limited grip and a lot of power, so a lot of wheel spin. [The 2017] cars will hopefully be more about finding the limit.
"It's hopefully going to be more of challenge to get the car to the limit and then the compromise will be less of a worry, That's my hope anyway. It's more enjoyable to drive a car that you really have to push hard and extract everything from rather than thinking all the time what is the right compromise."
Magnussen has predicted Red Bull to be the team to halt Mercedes' three seasons of dominance, and also hopes Ferrari will be up in the mix.
"Red Bull will be the big surprise," the Dane claimed. "So that should be interesting to have not only one team fighting for the wins. Hopefully Ferrari will be stronger as well."
Magnussen joins Haas for his third year competing in F1 after failing to re-sign drives at McLaren and Renault in 2014 and 2016 respectively.
"Our biggest challenge is going to be to extract everything and understand it properly because we are a small team and we don't have enough people yet to throw analysis on everything and get everything analysed," he added.
"So we will have to work really hard to try and get the most out of what we have, which I hope and think will be a good package."
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