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Haas: Right approach to 2016 prevented sophomore slump

The Haas Formula 1 team says its 2017 results show its tactic of an early development switch has prevented it falling into a second-year "hole". Haas startled F1 by scoring points in three of its first four grands prix in 2016, placing it fifth in the constructors' championship initially. It only scored twice more thereafter and fell to eighth in the standings, having taken an early decision to focus its resources on 2017 car preparations. This year it entered the summer break seventh in the standings, one place and one point ahead of where it was at the same point in 2016. Team principal Gunther Steiner said this shows Haas has successfully avoided a trend of new F1 teams falling...
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