The Haas Formula 1 team has put “a lot of emphasis” on its pit stop practice to avoid a repeatꦚ of the issues it suffered in last season’s Australian Grand Prix.  💜;

Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen looked set 🐷to finish inside the top five in the 2018 season-opener before a pair of botched pit stops forced both drivers into re𒀰tirement. 

Team principal Günthe𒀰r Steiner revealed the American squad has been putting in a lot of work over the winter break to ensure it prevents encountering any more pit stop blunders at the start of the 2019 season. 

"We obviously have𝕴n't forgotten last year's💙 pitstops in Australia, which went wrong," Steiner explained.

"This year we've put a lot of emphasis on arriving there prepared. We brought a 2018 car to our c🦂ar build in Italy so we could train every day and work on pitstops.

"We did the same in Barcelona, as the current car is not always available for pitstop practic🙈e when you test. Every day the whole crew practiced around 10 to 𒉰12 pitstops a day.”

Haas is looki𝐆ng to build on its fifth-place finish in the 2018 constructors’ championships and looked to be in strong shape throughout pre-season testing, despite facing a numbe💞r of reliability setbacks. 

Grosjean played down concerns over reliability heading i🌠nto the new campaign and said he is feeling confident a༺bout the team’s chances. 

ﷺ“The most important thing was to get a good feeling in the car early on,” Grosjean added. “When you get that good feeling, you know the car is well born. 

“That’s important to start the s﷽eason – to be able to start on a high. Reliability, we had a few issues, but we’ve been working well to sort them out. I believe we’re now ready to attack the first race in Australia. 

“Obviously, ther🌼e’s always more and more you want to do, but then it’s becoming circuit-specific. Now it’s about getting the baseline setup in Melbourne and then fine tuning for Bahrain, China and so on.”

Asked to describe Haas’ VF-19 compared to its predecessor, t𓂃he Frenchman replied: “It’s very sexy. It’s a beautiful car. It handles very w𓄧ell. The feeling in the car is better than it was last year. 

“I think the team has done a really good job on its un🐻derstanding of the new front wing and getting ready for the season to start. I’m really looking forward to driving the car on different kinds of circuits.”