Guenther Steiner: "Strategy just as important among midfield teams"

Haas boss Guenther Steiner says that strategy is as important to get right for the teams in the midfield as it is for those at the front, especially when they are so close together.

Haas drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen have both scored points in the opening three races of 2017, and Steiner believes that strategy was crucial in allowing to achieve their respective eighth-place finishes - but also that circumstance contributed to them as well. Speaking to the official F1 website, Steiner said: "For all the teams that are pretty close together, strategy is a differentiator.

"You see that with Ferrari and Mercedes, but also in the midfield sector. In China it was the conditions and the Safety Car. In Bahrain, again the Safety Car - one virtual and one real. So whoever gets it right in these unforeseeable situations is at the front in the end. And there strategy plays a huge part. In a normal race with only one pit stop, the race result is, of course, more predictable. But we haven't had such a 'simple' race so far. That is good news."

 

Mason Hawker

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