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Haas' Team Principal Guenther Steiner has expressed his disappointment at the American squad's Friday running in Hungary, describing the two practice sessions as its most difficult in its short F1 existence so far.
FP1 saw Antonio Giovinazzi step into Kevin Magnussen's car once again, but he crashed early on in the session, and Romain Grosjean suffered through balance issues and yet more brake woes - the two could only manage sixteenth and nineteenth as the chequered flag fell. Magnussen took his seat back for FP2, but the damage to the car from the first session curtailed his track time, since the team had to repair it before he could go out.
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The day did not get any better for Haas after that, and Steiner openly made his frustration clear as it came to an end: "It is the most difficult one (practice) for Haas F1 - including last year," he said. "Ever. I don't think we ever struggled this much. The balance is all over the place, and we didn't have a second car to give us data because the second car was destroyed. It was miserable. On all fronts. Whatever we did was miserable. Not a lot more to say."
Of Grosjean's day in particular, Steiner added: "(He had) just no balance. One of these days with no balance. It goes from no grip from the front to no grip at the rear. It was just brutal today. It was brutal. It was miserable today. We are at the point where it's very difficult and then you fall back, as you see.
"We went out with our Supersofts to try to do a qualifying run. Then everybody is on a high fuel load and you get stuck in traffic. It is just a downward spiral. We will try to rescue what we can for tomorrow."
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