Romain Grosje🦄an hopes to turn his torrid start to the 2018 Formula 1 season into a “positive spiral” after scoring his best qualifying result of the year at the Austrian Grand Prix. 

The Haas driver has endured his worst start to an💧 F1 campaign having failed to score a single point from the opening eight rounds this season, but stared in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring with a bꦗrilliant lap to set the sixth-quickest time in Q3 and outpace the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo. 

Grosjean will start Sunday’𓂃s race from fifth on the grid with Sebastian Vettel set to drop three places after picking up a penalty for impeding Renault’s Carlos Sainz, and the Frenchman is determined to turnaround his fortunes by converting his qualifying performance into a strong result. 

“It’s one day to be good and get a perfect weekend. It would be n𝓡ice to relaunch a positive sp🌱iral because its been a negative since Melbourne,” Grosjean said. 

“Some have been my ꦰfault, some from j𓆏ust pure bad luck. This weekend everything is working well and I’m looking forward to race tomorrow. 

“It’s nice to know that I’m still on it and I sti🔯ll know how to dri🧸ve and I can produce good results and that things can go smoothly,” he told Sky. 

“It was j🙈ust a bad run going on and it was really hard to stop it. But I’m glad we’ve done that and now I just want tomorrow to go well so I restart on a positive and buildﷺ from there.”

When asked if he felt one positive result could completely change h💛is season, Grosjean replied: “It does tend to work that way. It’s not always t♏he case but I know what I need and once its there it starts to get better again.”

Haas team principal Günther St🍌einer said it was important Grosjean showed he can deliver strong performances. 

“After a streak like he had, I think it was 12 races without points, it’s a long time for him,” Steiner⛎ explained. 

“He still hasn’t got points but to make a qualifying like this. Its very important for him to have shown he can deliver. I thin𓄧k h𒐪e will sleep well tonight and he deserves it.”

Steiner added he was relieved to see his team turn the promising pace of its car into a strong grid 𓆉position. 

"It's feels pretty good.🐭 We had a wonderful day and we hope we have a wonderful day tomorrow. That's it. Nothing more to add. Keep doing what we ar🎶e doing and not screwing it up."

Kevin Magnussen - who will start three places behind his team🐠mate and behind both Red Bull drivers in eighth - is unsure whether Haas will have the pace to beat Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo in the race. 

“I am not sure we are faster than them,” he said. “I think we are almost on par with them on race pace. If we can get in front then [maybe] but you need to b🦩e more than two-tenth𒐪s faster to overtake so let’s see.”