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The important thing change that has helped Magnussen lastly click on along with his Haas
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The important thing change that has helped Magnussen lastly click on along with his Haas

By Miles Cooper November 1, 2024
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Kevin Magnussen’s tempo has been reworked lately, with Mexico seeing him produce his finest qualifying and Method 1 race results of the season.

Critically, that exhibiting was not the results of some freak circumstance, because it got here from some fairly spectacular tempo that even meant he was sooner than Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen within the closing levels of the race.

It’s a far cry from the beginning of the season when Magnussen was struggling to get assured in Haas’s 2024 challenger, and earned consideration extra for his rear gunner ways than his onerous outcomes out on observe.

The breakthrough that he seems to have made since Austin, which may show vital in Haas’s constructors’ championship battle with RB, has come concurrently the staff launched a significant new improve – however it’s not these aero components which have made the distinction.

As a substitute, key to Magnussen lastly unleashing the tempo that he knew he had inside him is elevated confidence on nook entry, and particularly in relation to brake really feel.

“This 12 months it has been very inconsistent on the brakes and I really feel like we hopefully mounted that,” stated Magnussen, when requested by Motorsport.com to elucidate the place his step ahead had come from.

“It actually appeared that means within the final two races that there was a change that was made which I actually felt. That was very constructive.

“Hopefully it is not temperature-related and hopefully it’s actual, however it actually coincided with making that change.”

The important thing change that has helped Magnussen lastly click on along with his Haas

Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-24, Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-24

Picture by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Pictures

Digging a bit deeper into the specifics of the place issues are higher, Magnussen defined that it was all associated to that preliminary braking section.

“This season, once I hit the brakes, they form of have a little bit of lag after which they chew a short while after hitting the brakes,” he stated.

“So it is that preliminary feeling that I hit the brakes very onerous. My peak brake strain is all the time means greater than Nico [Hulkenberg], and so I feel I simply have to really feel the brakes change on instantly, and that is been actually hurting my confidence on entries.

“It upsets you in a foul means whenever you already really feel uncomfortable with the brakes. In order that’s been an enormous assist.

“To know that they chew on the identical means each time you hit the brakes, that is an enormous factor for me.”

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Haas is presently 10 factors forward of RB within the battle for sixth within the constructors’ championship, having had a run of 5 top-10 finishes.

And though it appears to have a good tempo benefit over its Faenza-based rival, Magnussen says it can’t take something without any consideration simply but.

“We’re blissful that we’re 10 factors forward, however I do not assume you may ever be too assured right here,” he stated.

“It might probably swing round in a short time. They simply want one good race and so they’re equal with us once more. So we simply want to remain on the ball.”

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