Haas has been struggling to find their early-season form again recently, but their team principal Guenther Steiner insists that the American team can still end up fourth in the constructors' championship
Currently, that slot is filled by Renault, who generally have been 'best of the rest' this season. Mainly because of Romain Grosjean's many crashes and the lack of new parts, Haas are struggling to get close to the French team. But the battle for fourth is not over yet, Steiner thinks.
“You never stop; you never say, ‘Oh, we need a break’ and you just wait until you get lucky,” Steiner explained to Racer.
“We always try to do our best and come up with the best with what we can do.
"I think we showed that.
"On Friday Kevin was struggling and in qualifying he still qualified 11th."
When asked if Haas deserve better luck (or at least not such bad luck that you hit a groundhog), Steiner was calculated with his answer.
“I wouldn’t say deserve it, that’s a little bit presumptuous.
“We wish for it because even other teams come to me, ‘Guys what have you done to get it all?’ because for me the weirdest thing is this groundhog or whatever this animal was running into it.
"There are 20 cars out there and there’s a groundhog on the road and we are going hit it on the nose — we are not hitting it on the wing, we are hitting it on the nose.
"It’s one of these freak things but again, we don’t deserve to, we need to work hard and it will come to us, and then just hope the lady luck comes to you.
"What gets you over the disappointment two, three hours later is four weeks ago in Barcelona we were best of the rest by a good margin and we haven’t lost that."
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