Kravitz rubbishes Ferrari v Haas paddock rumour

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz has quickly shut down a rumour within the paddock that Ferrari may have been “threatening” Haas to turn down their customer engine, with their strong performances in Bahrain and Jeddah raising eyebrows.

These paddock murmurs were reportedly started as Haas showed a drop-off in their competitiveness in Australia, compared to their performance level at the first two races of 2022.

Both Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher ended up outside the points come the chequered flag on Sunday, but the Sky Sports reporter wasn’t entertaining suggestions that Ferrari had anything to do with their sudden slide.

“Where has Haas’ pace gone? That is an open question that is being asked by a lot of people in the paddock,” Kravitz said on his post-Australian Grand Prix Notebook for Sky F1.

Disappointed not to get points today. We gambled on the hard tire, but the safety car ruined the strategy. The starting set-up wasn’t good and we were struggling with tires on the new tarmac. But we were able to turn things around and @HaasF1Team will score points next time pic.twitter.com/QMDD1NUaID

— Kevin Magnussen (@KevinMagnussen) April 10, 2022

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“From scoring points in the first couple of races with Kevin Magnussen to finishing P13 and P14 in Australia is very, very odd.

“There have been some suggestions amongst the rumour mongers that maybe Ferrari