Esteban Gutierrez apologises to Haas for outbursts

  • Published on 21 Aug 2016 16:55
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  • By: Fergal Walsh

Haas F1 driver Esteban Gutierrez has apologized to his team for his outbursts earlier in the season.

The Mexican has so far not had the season he wanted as he has failed to score a single point while his team-mate has scored 28. He has come closer and closer to the points, finishing eleventh four times this season and has matched and even out-paced his team-mate at recent weekends.

"There have been a few moments in the season where frustration was very high and I admit that,” said Gutierrez. “There have also been a lot of moments of desperation where I had to be a bit aggressive with a few people in the team.

“When you are a driver doing everything you can – preparing yourself in the best way, being very quick, putting everything together from your side – and then you see very basic mistakes from the team side, it’s like ‘What’s going on?’

“But I also have to admit sometimes I was a bit too much on certain occasions. I went and apologised and we’ve become closer and closer and closer as a team.”

“I put the frustration on one side in order to say ‘Let’s be a team and make it right’. They understood. Those things happen and you need to find the best compromise.

“Then more mistakes happened, but it was then about keeping calm and keeping going and going and going. Thankfully I have the support of Gunther [Steiner, team principal], I have the support from the chief engineers and a lot of people on the team.

“We are all doing our best to improve the team, to make it work because it’s a team of two cars and we want to score points with two cars, not only one.”

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