Haas F1 Team Defiant After ‘Losing 15 Points’ in Recent Races

• Haas F1 Team is on a run of five successive Formula 1 Grands Prix without a point, during which there have been strategic errors, clumsy crashes, and reliability setbacks.

• The recent lackluster return has left Haas ninth in the F1 standings.

• Haas has slipped behind Aston Martin, and now only is in front of the struggling Williams outfit.

The Haas F1 season started superbly with that fairy-tale fifth place for comeback king Kevin Magnussen in Bahrain.

Since then, matters have turned a little sour.

Heading into Sunday's F1 British Grand Prix, the team is on a run of five successive Grands Prix without a point, during which there have been strategic errors, clumsy crashes, and reliability setbacks. The nadir came at the most recent event in Canada, where fifth- and sixth-place qualifying efforts for drivers Magnussen and Mick Schumacher was squandered before the race even reached mid-distance.

Magnussen collected race-ruining first-lap damage after brushing Lewis Hamilton—the second time in four Grands Prix the pair had hit—while Schumacher’s prospects ended when the Ferrari power unit packed up.

The recent lackluster return has left Haas ninth in the standings, having slipped behind Aston Martin, and now only in front of the struggling Williams outfit.

“It’s not like we haven’t scored points and can say it is the same thing that happens every time, it has been different things: bad luck, reliability, some mistakes, it was just a bad period of time where things haven’t gone right,” said Magnussen ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone. “It feels like it’s going to come, it’s going to turn around and go our way at some point, so I’m not down about it because we have a car that is competitive every time.