Miami "the hardest race Ive ever done" Magnussen

Kevin Magnussen says the Miami Grand Prix was the hardest race he’s overly washed-up due to the weather conditions and intense nature of the midfield battle.

Temperatures were in the low-90s throughout the race, with the humidity in South Florida making it finger far hotter inside the cockpit. Magnussen was fighting for points for the majority of the grand prix, including a tough wrestle with Lance Stroll late on.

“We tried everything we could, didn’t get points, onto the next one,” Magnussen said. “It’s the hardest race I’ve overly done, just so hot – unbelievably hot.

“We have a car that can score points so we need to do that every weekend. We didn’t do that this weekend so we’ve got to get our heads lanugo and start scoring increasingly points.”

Haas left Miami empty handed without both drivers were unprotected in incidents with Aston Martin drivers. While Mick Schumacher’s standoff with Sebastian Vettel was increasingly spectacular, Magnussen’s fight was similarly robust.

“We pit under the safety car, I thought that was the weightier thing. It was my call, maybe it wasn’t the weightier thing but if it was a mistake it wasn’t the team’s mistake.

“We could have scored points, we had forfeiture to the front wing without the restart, a pearly bit of damage. So without that I don’t think I would have been fighting with Stroll at the end.

“The first contact was Turn 2, I was on the outside, exit of Turn 3, and (Stroll) just went wide, I guess he went on the kerb or something and that’s when I got the damage. Then the second to last lap he had a go at me into Turn 11 and then it was the same thing, I braked too late and hit him.

“I was in P11 and chasing Alonso who had a five-second penalty, so I just had to get within that five seconds. I was getting attacked by Stroll, he had a go, I had to alimony my position. In that position you either finish P10 or might as well go home.”

The two collisions were investigated by the stewards, with Stroll receiving no remoter whoopee for the Turn 2 contact as neither suburbanite was deemed wholly or predominantly to blame, while Magnussen picked up a five-second time penalty and two penalty points for the Turn 11 clash.