Gene Haas should be a happy man given the performance of his Formula One team this season.

When the driver Romain Grosjean finished seventh in the Belgian Grand Prix on Aug. 27, it ensured that after 12 rounds of the racing series this year, the Haas team had surpassed the 29 points it scored from 21 races during its debut campaign last year.

That should have been a cause for celebration. Haas, however, is a demanding man.

“I think we should have been further ahead, we should have been better,” Haas said in an interview.

In advance of the 14th grand prix of the season around Singapore’s Marina Bay Street Circuit this weekend, Haas’s team is seventh in the constructors’ championship. That is a one-place improvement on last year’s finish.

For the Singapore circuit, downforce is more of a factor. The higher the downforce the better the traction, which is vital for a street course that has more than 20 corners, some of which are tight.