It Is A Set-up Like We Have Never Had Before-haug

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Haug,:

NH: I think we saw good speed in Bahrain really, Kimi coming from 22nd and finishing third. I think that was well-deserved, that was good speed. If you compare us to the fastest race laps, I think that was good. You are certainly slightly handicapped if you are on a one stop compared to the best lap times. Kimi was out on the first lap due to an accident in the second race. I think he was in a position to go for a podium finish. It certainly would have been very very difficult to beat the Renaults, they have the edge. I think Honda has made a good step (forward) and we are quite close together, but I expected quite a difficult start for us and I have to say that since our first test on January 23rd I think we made good steps and I hope we continue in that direction. And there is more to come, but as Pat pointed out, I think you have named the GPMA teams, Ferrari as the sixth one – not in that order – but Williams are absolutely fully there, as we saw. This is the seventh team. Speed wise, I saw some very impressive laps from Red Bull already. They probably didn’t have the best winter testing but still they finished the first race, I think, and speed wise they were there, so eight teams. When did we ever have a Formula One season where eight teams… Renault has the edge but this hopefully can change, but there is a great potential there of 16 cars at least. I think that’s high class and I think that has a lot to do with all the efforts of the teams, of the manufacturer teams, of the newcomers, of the Red Bulls, but it is a set-up like we have never had before, as long as I remember, which is good for the sport and good for the spectators.