Haas seem to be going from strength to strength of late. Saturday in Germany saw Kevin Magnussen qualify fifth – his best since joining the American squad – with team mate Romain Grosjean backing the Dane up in sixth.

Combined, it was the best qualifying outcome in the young team’s F1 history to date – and Magnussen was understandably delighted with the result.

“Very happy with today – good starting position for tomorrow,” said Magnussen, whose previous best Haas qualifying was sixth in 2018’s Australian season opener.

“We've got both cars up there and hopefully we can bring it home tomorrow and some strong points.”

Magnussen was one of only four drivers to finish within a second of Sebastian Vettel’s commanding pole time for Ferrari, leading him to believe that Haas may have increased the VF-18’s performance. “I still think our car is particularly strong in the high-speed [corners] and we've been a bit weaker in low speed – and this his track has a few low-speed corners. We seem to be good here, so maybe we've improved our weakness.