Magnussen feels a 'changed person' after 2022 comeback
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 ...