Grosjean returns to Australian GP setup on his Haas

Make a clean sweep. This is what was decided Haas for the British Grand Prix. While the VF-19 had shown great promise in winter testing in Barcelona and Melbourne, the rest was much less rosy for a car plagued by a recurring problem that the US team is struggling to resolve. 

Guenther Steiner's men then chose to bring together Romain Grosjean with the car he drove in Australia by changing the nose, the flat bottom, the bargeboards, the rear wing, and the deflectors under the front wing of his car. His teammate Kevin Magnussen, for its part, will keep the current package for comparison purposes.  

« We reverted to the Melbourne configuration on my car, explained Grosjean. We removed all the developments of the year. We'll see how it works. Since we introduced a big development in Barcelona, ​​I have never felt comfortable behind the wheel. 

It's been two races that I've been asking to go back because the feeling isn't great and the performances aren't there either. After Austria, we got the green light. This is not an obvious change to make. This will allow us to understand by comparing the two packages, to see what we missed. We're a little out of ideas. We see what the problem is, we know what the problem is. The problem is that it slips. Now we don't know how to fix it. 

At the start of the year, we were not good at using tires. We focused a lot of communication on this. I think it was at Castellet that I started to say that we had to stop blaming the tires. In Austria I did the whole race within the usage window. The rubbers were hot, they were working and yet we were not moving forward ». 

Suffice it to say that the Frenchman expects to experience a full-scale test session on English soil this weekend.