Asked if he had felt the performance in the car as he fought back to claim the places he had earlier lost, Hulkenberg answered: “Yeah, it was a super tricky race, with the rain at the beginning but not enough to pit for inters.
“But really like a thriller to judge the grip level, not knowing what you get when you turn in. Around here with high-speed corners and the grip like this, it was Russian roulette in a way. But managed to stay clean and got back what we lost at the start so, yeah, well deserved.”
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Hulkenberg’s eight points have brought Haas even closer to RB in the constructors’ battle for sixth, with the American outfit’s tally of 27 points only four behind their rival team’s total.
And while Haas boosted their score by taking home a double points result last time out in Austria, Kevin Magnussen missed out at Silverstone. The Dane – who had been running the older specification car without the new updates – struggled with tyre graining towards the end of the race and ended the event in P12.
“I think we pitted one lap too early,” Magnussen explained later on. “I was sort of within range of [Alex] Albon and he stayed out another lap I think and opened the gap massively, and on top of that the pace wasn’t really that good on the soft there at the end.
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