@RGrosjean and @KevinMagnussen part ways with @HaasF1Team at the end of 2020. #F1

Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen are set to leave Haas F1 Team at the end of the 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship season.

Grosjean has been with the Kannapolis-Banbury outfit since the team joined the sport in 2016 and team-mate Magnussen joined a year later – with the four year partnership matched in tenure by the Mercedes pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.

Grosjean memorably scored points on Haas F1 Team’s debut at the 2016 season-opening Australian Grand Prix – taking his VF-16 racer to sixth place, The Frenchman followed up with an incredible fifth-place at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

In 2018, Magnussen scored his career-high of ninth place in the World Driver’s Championship. The Dane claimed 11 top ten finishes out of 21 Grands Prix piloting the VF-18 – including two fifth-placed finishes at the Bahrain and Austrian Grands Prix.

Since teaming together in 2017, Grosjean and Magnussen delivered several notable performances including the American squad’s first double points finish (2017 Monaco Grand Prix), highest team race finish (fourth and fifth place at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix) and in 2018 they helped propel the team to it’s best overall finish in the World Constructors Championship – fifth place.

“I want to extend my thanks to both Romain (Grosjean) and Kevin (Magnussen) for their hard work and commitment to Haas F1 Team over the past few seasons,” explained Haas F1 Team Principal Guenther Steiner. “Romain was a fundamental part of our establishment as we sought to get a driver onboard with both speed and experience,”

 

“His results in early 2016 were a just reward, not only for his own talent, but also for the sheer amount of effort the team had put in to be on the grid that season. When Kevin joined a season later, we saw an immediate return with both cars scoring points, and of course, our first double points finish in Monaco that year,”

 

“We have a lot of good memories together – in particular our 2018 season when we finished fifth in the standings in only our third season. Romain and Kevin played a significant part in that success. Of course, there is still plenty of racing left in the 2020 season,

 

“It’s been a challenging year, no doubt about that, but both drivers have given their all behind the wheel of the VF-20. We value their inputs and experience to keep pushing the team forward through to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December.” Steiner concluded. Credit to Haas F1 Team for the quote. https://www.haasf1team.com/news/haas-f1-team-statement

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