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Steiner: Grosjean is testing Haas patience with crashes

Steiner: Grosjean is testing Haas patience with crashes

09-07-2018 14:30
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Jake Williams-Smith

Haas team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted that Romain Grosjean's lack of form and high frequency of crashes is beginning to test the patience of the team. The Frenchman was again involved in a crash during the race, this time with Renault's Carlos Sainz.

Despite a strong fourth-placed finish a week ago in Austria, Grosjean crashed twice over the British Grand Prix weekend, undoing a lot of the good will he would have earned with his points finish in Spielberg.

“I wouldn’t call this bad luck,” Steiner admitted to media after the race. “It’s getting frustrating.

“We all hope for him that we are going up and now we are down in the dumps again and we need to get out again.

“We will get out of it, it’s always hard work, but we should put pour hard work into scoring points instead of getting up again. We should be up and trying to hit high but at the moment we are using a lot of energy just to get out of the dumps always. Always chasing instead of trying to move ahead.”

Despite Grosjean's recent indiscretions, Steiner did reaffirm that the team would continue to support him but there could come a point in which that support begins to dwindle.

“That’s what I need to (do) because we need to succeed as a team.

“I don’t know where the tipping point is. I’m not there yet. But at some stage, as I said before, we need to stop losing points. And that is the tipping point.

“We cannot keep on doing this. We are now through half the season and we must have lost a lot of points because of our own mistakes. And this is actually not acceptable.”