Responsibility and attention was piled upon Esteban Gutierrez today at the Singapore Grand Prix. For the first time in the team’s history the Haas F1 team was only able to field one competitor in today’s race. The car of Romain Grosjean suffered a series of mechanical failures which the team was not able to resolve before the race start. Esteban Gutierrez qualified 13th.
During the race Gutierrez was able to reach P5. This Was His Highest position and he would end the day and that all too familiar 11th Place. After 15 races Esteban Gutierrez has still not scored any points for the Haas team and this would be his sixth time finishing in 11th spot, fun place away from those elusive points.
Croatians problems begin during practice. The French Haas pilot was not able to participate in practice 1. He spun the car in practice 2 and it broke his rear wing, rear suspension, and it’s floor. Heathens pen again and it broke his gearbox or as we call it a transmission. The replacement of the transmission costume of five place penalty on the starting grid which would have been applied after qualifying. But then at the last minute his brake by wire system broke and Grosjean shop was out of the race.
It was a beautiful waste race to watch. Just not for the Haas team. We’ll see you all in Malaysia in 2 weeks.