Magnussen annoyed by Abiteboul's remarks

Kevin Magnussen settled accounts with Cyril Abiteboul, the director general of Renault Sport Racing, following the Frenchman's comments reported in AUTO issue 2096hebdo.

The French engineer had in fact complained about the attitude of the Dane who will replace Esteban Gutiérrez this year at Haas F1 Team. The strong man of Renault had indicated that “Magnussen (had) disappointed him. On his performance and his behavior. He has real talent but is not disciplined and diligent enough and makes too many excuses..

“I think it’s easy to say that someone is making excuses.”, replied Kevin Magnussen on Sky Sports News. I said what I thought about certain things and he was upset about it. I can't help him being disappointed in me, but I'm a little sorry he made this public. It's his way of doing things. »

Kevin Magnussen will in any case be motivated to place Haas F1 Team ahead of Renault, which was the case in 2016 for a 21-point lead.

“It's a thing of the past, I don't have to dwell on their problems anymore. It will be important to beat them and I think we can do it. They will need a lot of time to progress with the concerns they have, added the Dane. Like I always said, there are some really good people on this team that I spent the whole year (in 2016) with and I made a lot of friends there. »

In another interview with ESPN, the new recruit of Haas F1 Team has expressed his regrets about his career in F1.

“I feel like I was unlucky with my previous two teams. I should have been able to accomplish more with them. I lost my steering wheel at McLaren for reasons that remain a little unclear and I then left Renault because we didn't think it would work. I received an offer from them which I could not accept because I had another one which was better”he insisted.