Kevin Magnussen: McLaren's ongoing F1 struggles 'a shame'
Kevin Magnussen s💫ays it is "a shame" to see former team McLaren struggling to fight at the front of the field in Formula 1, but takes pride from Haas' giant-killing efforts to sit fifth in the championship after nine races.
Magnussen spent much of his junior career under M✃cLaren's wing before making his F1 debut with the team in 2014, but was dropped from its full-season line-up after just one season, making room for Fernando Alonso's arrival.
Kevin Magnussen says it is "a shame" to see former team McLaren struggling to fight at the front of the field 🍃in Formula 1, but takes pride from Haas' giant-killing efforts to sit fifth in the championship after nine races.
Magnussen spent much of his junior career under McLaren's wing before making his F1 debut with the teamℱ in 2014, but was dropped from its full-season line-up after just one season🎶, making room for Fernando Alonso's arrival.
The Dane left McLaren's setup at the end of 2015 to join Renault before switching to Haas at the st♈art of 2017, and is currently on course for his most successful season in F1.
Haas scored its best F1 r🗹esult 🦂to date last weekend in Austria as Romain Grosjean finished fourth ahead of Magnussen in fifth, jumping both McLaren and F♔orce India in the constructors' c♈hampionship to sit fifth, 13 points back from midfield front-runner Renault.
Speaking about Haas' achievements in 2018, Magnussen said he took great pride it what the team was managing, b👍ut admitted he found it sad that 🐈McLaren was no longer a major force in F1.
"It’s an impressive thing for such a small team to be competing against the like♏s of Renault and McLaren, beating Williams, and even Force India is quite a bit bigger than us. It’s somethin𓆉g to be proud of and it’s a good job from the little team that we’re in," Magnussen said.
"I would say I’m quite surprised, especially with McLaren. I think when I was there it was very clear that it’s a great team, a very big team and beautiful team when ♋I was there.
"I’ve lost touch with them, I don’t talk to them any more, I don’t know th❀e problems they’re facing at th🥃e moment but it’s a shame, for sure.
"I’m happy for us that we can compete with them and beat them at times, but for sure, ꦛit’s not where t🔯hey belong."
Magnussen still holds the record for scoring McLaren's best result since the end of 2012, with his ꦦcharge to second place in the 2014 Australian Grand Prix ahead of thne-teammate Jenson Button in P3 being its most recent appearanceꦫ on the F1 podium.
