F1 2018: Top 5 teams heading into Bahrain GP

F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain
Bahrain International Circuit in the twilight

#3 Haas has reshuffled its pit crew after losing the race in the pits

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Magnussen drops out after his pitstop

Pitstop blunders for both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean at the Australian GP denied the team possibly their best ever result in their F1 campaign. Initially, they assumed that the wheel gun failure was the reason for it.

The post-race analysis concluded that the lack of practice from the pit crew, which had a lot of new crew members was the reason.

For this weekend, Haas has altered its procedures to try to ensure their mistakes are not repeated.

Haas Team Principal Steiner said:

"We swapped a few positions [between pit crew], and the main reason is not that they did the mistake, but getting their confidence back.
"If you keep on doing the same and the guys are not confident, the risk that you have a mistake again is high, so we swapped positions.
"You pair different people and give them different jobs because you need so many people anyway, and that is what we did for this race, and that is what we are doing since yesterday practicing."

Haas has turned a lot of heads with their astonishing pace in testing and the first race. Until things went awry in Australia, both Magnussen and Grosjean were keeping the charging Red Bulls behind them.

Haas will try to lead the pack of midfield cars, there is a reserve chance that they can be ahead of the Red Bull if they out qualify them on Saturday.

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Edited by Akhilesh Tirumala
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