Nico Hulkenberg believes that one thing was amiss on his VF-24 after the Canadian Grand Prix weekend and urged his crew to analyze his automobile forward of this week’s race in Barcelona.
Hulkenberg and teammate Kevin Magnussen had been within the combine in the beginning of the race in Montreal because of their strategic option to the rain-hit occasion on full-wets as an alternative of inters.
The decision instantly made up for Hulkenberg’s mediocre P19 efficiency in qualifying, however sadly, drying observe circumstances pressured an early pitstop on each Haas drivers who fell down the order.
Whereas the German concluded his day simply exterior the factors in eleventh place, he reckoned that a greater dealing with automobile from the outset of his race weekend would have allowed to focus on a top-ten end in Montreal.
“The missed alternative was yesterday [Saturday] and usually all weekend,” Hulkenberg mentioned after his race on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. .
“The issue we have had on my automobile – that one way or the other it is not absolutely wholesome, I believe, on the aero aspect or someplace.
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“I nonetheless really feel after the race that I’ve an issue with it, that’s not absolutely at 100% the place we’re alleged to be. However you already know, clearly, you do what you possibly can with what you have got.
“However clearly, additionally not having the Friday, not having time to react after that’s… it is simply altogether a tough weekend with the circumstances.”
Hulkenberg known as on his crew to conduct a radical assessment of his automobile’s heath a she felt that one thing didn’t simply “really feel proper”.
“The entire weekend, particularly on my aspect of the storage, and from lap one, I did not really feel proper and pleased with the automobile, and we have to examine what was happening as a result of that actually compromised our weekend,” he mentioned.
“Every little thing that occurred, after which quali, value us a greater consequence as a result of I am positive with a greater quali that we usually have, if we begin additional forward, we’d have scored factors. So it is sort of a missed alternative.”
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