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Montoya told Steiner about Magnussen

Mar.11 Juan Pablo Montoya was the first to tell Haas boss Gunther Steiner about Kevin Magnussen's talent. Magnussen joined the American team after stints at McLaren and Renault. But Haas boss Steiner says he first heard about the Danish driver from former F1 winner Montoya. "Kevin is friends with Juan Pablo," Steiner told BT newspaper. "One day when Juan Pablo and I were in Mexico, he asked me 'Have you looked at Kevin Magnussen? He is very good'. "I knew his father but when I met Kevin, he asked where I had heard of him and he told me he doesn't know Montoya at all," Steiner laughed. In the new F1 documentary on Netflix, Steiner emerges as a particularly tough...
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