The Haas Formula 1 team heads into this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix “cautiously optimistic” of a performance turnaround with the introduction of a “significant” upgrade. Haas has failed to finish inside the points since the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and has slipped to eighth place in the constructors’ championship. The American squad has struggled to get Pirelli’s 2019 tyre compounds to work since Melbourne and its performance in race trim has taken a dramatic drop off as a result, leading to a vast array of updates to its VF-19 challenger in Spain. “We’ve had four races and only one was almost completely executed - in Australia - and I say almost as we only...
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