Magnussen: Lack of pace a surprise to Haas

Kevin Magnussen believes that Haas' struggles so far in Monaco have been track-dependent rather than any real loss of pace in the car. The Dane will start 19th and was the slowest of all those who set a lap time in qualifying.

“It’s a bit of a shock this weekend, coming from last weekend being so good and so competitive to being this uncompetitive and really struggling for so many different reasons,” he said.

“We can’t just put the finger on tyres not working or balance issues. It’s just lacking pace this weekend. We can’t seem to find it in any way.

“In the short time, we’ve tried a hell of a lot of things. So it’s not easy.

“We have got a lot of damage on the car, riding kerbs, with the bumpy track, we damaged the floor a bit,” he added.

“We’ve done some repairs, and that could play a part. But it seems crazy to lose that much performance from that.

“We know we’re at the very end of this car and then we’ll upgrade it in Canada, hopefully.

“Hopefully we’ll find a different situation. A lot of the other teams have brought upgrades and a bit further down the road on their upgrades.

“We need to catch up on that and I’m sure we will.”