K-Mag has shed the ‘fear’ of losing his F1 place

Guenther Steiner has noticed a difference in the new, “much more confident” Kevin Magnussen who has shed the fear of losing his F1 seat.

Magnussen has returned to Haas this season after a year out of Formula 1 and is capitalising on a VF-22 car that is much more competitive than its predecessors built by the team.

In 2020, the year when he left Haas at the end of the campaign, Magnussen scored only one point. He already has 15 in the bank this time around.

The Dane has returned on something of a free hit, having spent a year in endurance racing in the United States and not even knowing he would be back in F1 until a few days before pre-season testing.

That, said Steiner, has eliminated the worries Magnussen possibly had throughout 2020 – perhaps even before – up to the point when told his services were no longer required, as he and Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookie duo Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin.

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