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Kevin Magnussen feels that Nico Hulkenberg 's arrival at Haas in 2023 will be "great" for the team, despite having had an infamous falling-out with the German in the past. Magnussen and Hulkenberg shared a memorable exchange in the media pen following the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Magnussen issued an explicit response to Hulkenberg's accusation that he was "the most unsporting driver on the grid". However, the pair appear to have cleared the air in the time since and Magnussen is welcoming the prospect of working with Hulkenberg, who will replace Mick Schumacher at the squad. Magnussen: Hulkenberg will be great for the team "I'm really looking forward to working with Nico," Magnussen told media, including TheFOXposts.Com , after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. "I think he is going to be great for the team, with all his expe...

Kevin Magnussen feels he is a "changed person" following his Formula 1 comeback in 2022 with the Haas team. Dane Magnussen was let go by the American squad at the end of 2020, along with Romain Grosjean, to make way for Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin in 2021. The team were set to contest the new campaign with the same driver pairing, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February prompted Haas to terminate Mazepin's contract owing to close family links with President Vladimir Putin. Faced with requiring a driver at short notice with the all-new breed of cars, team boss Guenther Steiner asked Magnussen to return. In the season-opener, Magnussen finished a strong fifth, with the 10 points he hauled more than three times as many as the team had done so in the previous two seasons combined. He would later take a maiden pole position in Brazil in changeable conditions and finished a respectable 13th in the standings with 25 points. Magnussen believes that ...

Kevin Magnussen has voiced his support for his 2022 Haas teammate Mick Schumacher , after it was revealed that the German would be replaced at the American outfit next year by Nico Hulkenberg. Schumacher leaves Haas after two seasons where he occasionally showed a good turn of speed, but blotted his copybook with several high-profile accidents that drew the ire of Team Principal Guenther Steiner. Magnussen has himself twice returned to an F1 race seat after spending a year on the sidelines, and said his own experiences showed that it is possible to come back to the sport. "It's a double-sided thing," Magnussen told media including TheFOXposts.Com . "On one hand, it's exciting, getting someone like Nico in with all his experience and capabilities. And on the other hand, I feel bad for Mick because I know how that feels, and I've been in that situation myself. "I think Mick has done a good job this year, and I like him as a person as well. I...

Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen has won the prestigious Lorenzo Bandini Trophy for efforts in the 2022 season. Dane Magnussen left Haas at the end of 2020, and was replaced by Nikita Mazepin, but following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February and his close family links to President Vladimir Putin, Mazepin's contract was ripped up just before the new season. At short notice, Haas turned to Magnussen who returned and finished fifth in the season-opener in Bahrain, adding a further five points finishes across the campaign. He claimed a maiden Pole Position in the Brazilian Grand Prix - being officially credited with it during the Sprint weekend and starting eighth for the main Grand Prix. The Bandini Trophy is named after the former Ferrari driver Bandini who perished in an accident at the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix after a crash. Founded in 1992, the award honours the achievements of those in motorsport and Formula 1 . Previous winners include World Champ...

Nico Hulkenberg has revealed how he " broke the ice" with new Formula 1 teammate Kevin Magnussen by repeating his own words back to him. Hulkenberg is to replace Mick Schumacher at Haas in 2023 and drive alongside Magnussen as he returns to full-time Grand Prix racing for the first time since 2019. The two had an infamous incident at the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Magnussen pushed Hulkenberg's Renault wide through Turns 2 and 3. In the media pen post-race, Hulkenberg confronted Magnussen who retorted that the German should "suck my b***s". Magnussen has been adamant that he has no problems with Hulkenberg joining the team, whilst the German says he greeted his new teammate with the same words used in Budapest earlier in 2022. Hulkenberg greets Magnussen "Of course, I expect to have a good relationship with him," Hulkenberg told media, includi...

Guenther Steiner insists that he has no regrets about dropping Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean in favour of two rookie drivers for 2021, despite the team having now reverted to a more experienced line-up. At the end of 2020, Haas opted to bring in Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for the following season, giving both their debut in F1 . The team sacrificed their 2021 car in order to focus on preparing for the new technical regulations in 2022, meaning that both rookies failed to score points in uncompetitive machinery. Mazepin was dropped ahead of the 2022 campaign following Russia's major military attack on Ukraine, and Magnussen made a surprise return to fill his seat. Schumacher remained but has lost his place at the squad for 2023, with Nico Hulkenberg making a comeback to race alongside Magnussen. Steiner doesn't regret rookie line-up While Haas now have two veteran ...

Kevin Magnussen will partner dad Jan for the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours, it has been announced. The father and son are set to compete in the endurance event with the MDK Motorsports team in a Porsche 911 GT3 R. While this will mark Magnussen's third appearance in the race – with the Dane having com Pet ed in the IMSA series in 2021 following his exit from F1 – it will be the first time that he has taken part with Jan. Magnussen Jnr is set for just the one IMSA race, given that the rest of the year will be spent racing with Haas in F1 , while Magnussen Snr has signed to drive for MDK Motor Sports on a permanent basis. Viewed by others: Guenther Steiner Why Steiner has no regrets about previously dropping Magnussen ...

If you ride onboard with any driver on the F1 TV app, you'll often hear engineers acting as 'spotters' as they tell them the gap to other cars on track. This is to ensure they can build up enough space before a lap so they do not encounter traffic, while also staying out of the way of drivers who are on a hot lap as the closing speeds can be quite fast. When FP1 in Melbourne was red flagged due to an issue with the GPS tracker, teams and drivers were effectively in the dark. What ensured was chaos as those on a hot lap encountered traffic, with Zhou Guanyu having to thread his way through a slow-moving Red Bull and Aston Martin at the penultimate corner. "Seemed like everyone was blindfolded once that GPS system went out," said Kevin Magnussen to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "We know that we are relying on our engineers to tell us where the traffic is and I don't think everyone knew that the GPS system was out. "So when you don...

Kevin Magnussen admits that he "didn't feel" his crash out of the Australian Grand Prix, despite losing a tyre in the incident. The Haas driver clipped the wall out of Turn 2 on Lap 54 of the event, with the impact ripping off his right rear wheel and forcing him to retire from proceedings. Race control opted to red flag the race following the incident, resulting in a frenetic restart for the final laps of the 58-lap Grand Prix. While the crash might have looked dramatic , Magnussen says that the impact inside the car was not noticeable. "I didn't even feel it," the Dane explained after the race. "It definitely wasn't something that felt big in the car, but it was enough to crack the rim and take the tyre off." Viewed by others: Nico Hulkenberg Hulkenberg explains 'code br...

Guenther Steiner says he was not nervous when seeing Kevin Magussen and Nico Hulkenberg getting close while racing each other on track. The two drivers went head-to-head at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, as Magnussen was on his way up the field in an attempt to get the squad's first points of the season. The pair have past History , with Hulkenberg once referring to Magnussen as "the most unsporting driver", which prompted the Dane to comeback with "suck my balls!" Steiner said he was not nervous watching the two drivers, given their History and Haas' previous problems with teammates crashing into each other. "I was not getting nervous or anything because I see them working outside of the car together, so you can imagine if nothing goes completely wrong [that will translate into] what they're doing on the race track," said Steiner to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "I think they respect each other and they knew that ther...

From fantastic wheel-to-wheel racing on track to political controversy off it, the 2022 Formula 1 season had it all. It was a virtuoso performance from World Champion Max Verstappen to secure his second crown with 15 wins from 22 races as he rewrote the record books and cemented himself as the new 'Man to Beat' in Grand Prix racing as Red Bull prised the Constructors' Championship away from Mercedes after eight years. Meanwhile in the paddock, there was wrangling over Red Bull spending too much and breaking the cost cap, receiving a substantial penalty and a lot of furore over a driver, who at the time, had never driven in an official session. TheFOXposts.Com's Jake Nichol and Rory Mitchell have rounded up some of the biggest stories of the year - starting with the retirement of an all-time great which triggered a silly-season the likes of which was never seen. Seba...

In the world of Formula 1 before the cost cap was introduced, front-running teams like Mercedes and Red Bull were spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to put two race cars out 22 or so times a year. Every year. And with no guarantee of how exactly that endeavour would play out come the end of the season once the prize money was dished out, it was unsustainable, with no new teams entering since the Class of 2010 - all three of whom had disappeared by 2017. Except one: Haas. But owner Gene Haas and boss Guenther Steiner were not about to be reckless and try to match the budgets of the behemoths. Instead, some savvy reading of the rulebook led to an all-new way of going Grand Prix racing. Instead of designing and building every aspect of their car themselves, Haas would buy as many non-listed parts, now known as Transferable Components, from Ferrari as possible: think suspension, gearbox, rear crash structure and other internal parts. The team would be required t...